Self-proclaimed leader of the Sultanate of Sulu Jamalul Kiram III (left) talks to reporters at his home in Manila on March 3, 2013. He later died on Oct 20, 2013 at the age of 75 due to multiple organ failure. Meanwhile, Sultan Esmail Dalus Kiram (right) one of the claimants to the sultanate in the southern province of Sulu addresses followers outside a mosque in Manila on March 11, 2005.Esmail became "Caretaker Sultan" of Sulu, died on Sept 19, 2015 and succeeded by the new "sultan", Phugdalon Kiram II.
