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DIPLOMAT SAYS PHILIPPINE HOSTAGES ARE ALIVE JOLO, Philippines -- Two days after Muslim rebels holed up on this island
said two of their hostages had died, a go-between has said that all 21 of the captives are
alive and will not be killed.
"They told an intermediary
that such action will only undermine their cause," said Jerry Matsila, South Africa's
deputy foreign affairs director-general, according to a report from the South African
Press Association.
Matsila said South African High Commissioner to Malaysia
Lindiwe Mabuza had on Thursday met the man acting as intermediary between the Muslim
captors and Filipino chief negotiator Nar Misauri.
Matsila did not name the
go-between but said he had told Mabuza the abductors had promised not to harm the group of
hostages.
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