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Surrounded by masked gunmen who appear to belong to the militant Islamist group Abu Sayyaf, the hostages each take turns speaking to the camera.

“Please, please help us,” one of them pleads.

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“Please meet their demands or else we’ll be possibly dead,” says another.

The two-minute video posted online Tuesday shows the first images of the four hostages, including two Canadians, since their abduction three weeks ago from a luxury marina in the southern Philippines.

The video does not contain explicit ransom demands. Instead, one of the masked fighters urges Philippine authorities to cease military assaults “against us.”

“Once you meet our requirements, then we can talk about negotiation and demand,” he says.

About 11 gunmen stormed the Holiday Ocean View Samal Resort off the southern coast of Mindanao on Sept. 21. They captured John Ridsdel, 68, a semi-retired former mining executive; fellow Canadian Robert Hall, 50; Hall’s Filipino girlfriend Marites Flor; and Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad, the resort’s manager.