Rocky road to peace

Editorial 02/13/2015

All the more now, we need sober voices to keep all parties firmly on the path of seeking justice and  peace. A dark genie has been uncorked with the uploading on the Internet of the  graphic video…

Gwen’s motion to show gory video triggers ruckus

02/12/2015

Cebu 3rd district Rep. Gwendolyn Garcia created a ruckus at yesterday’s congressional investigation of the Jan. 25 encounter in Mamasapano, Maguindanao after she moved to publicly show a video that recorded how some of the ill-fated members…

Widow raises questions after probe

02/10/2015

Julie Cayang-o said she “deviated from their cultural norms” just to personally hear the Senate hearing on the Mamasapano incident that killed her husband PO1 Gringo Cayang-o. When one of their family member dies, the Cayang-o family…

‘Too many probes blemish the truth’

Victor Anthony V. Silva 02/10/2015

THE Cebu Provincial Board has approved a resolution asking the Office of the President to integrate  all investigations on the Mamasapano debacle that claimed the lives of 44 members of the PNP-Special Action Force (SAF). Board Member…

SAF widow tells Roxas: I want to be a cop

Edison Delos Angeles 02/08/2015

The widow of the Cebuano member of the ill-fated PNP Special Action Force (SAF) team that were routed in a clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao said she wanted to become a police officer herself so she could keep…

Fuente cops shave heads for Fallen 44

Chito O. Aragon, Jhunnex Napallacan 02/06/2015

Seventy-six policemen of the Fuente police precinct had their heads shaved yesterday to express  support for  the families of the 44 slain Special Action Force (SAF) police commandos. PO2 Sheryl Guanco and five female cops joined 40…

Not worth dying for

Jobers R. Bersales 02/05/2015

A SAF trooper bravely hit the nail on the head when he bluntly told Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas: “This country is not worth dying for, sir, if our government cannot even protect its own…

8 truths in the Mamasapano massacre?

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 02/05/2015

The sorrow, frustration and anger over the deaths of 44 SAF members in the hands of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and their classmates wearing reversible jackets bearing the BIFF insignia, according to a columnist writing…

Residents are collateral damage too in Mamasapano massacre — CHR

02/05/2015

MAMASAPANO, Maguindanao —- “It’s tragic.” This was how Commission on Human Rights Chair Etta Rosales described the site of the bloody fighting between the police’s Special Action Force commandos and combined forces of the Moro Islamic Liberation…

SAF medic refused to leave wounded men, died with troops

Inquirer 01/31/2015

He could have chosen to save himself amid the heavy gunfire during an encounter in Mamasapano, Maguindanao. But PO1 Windell Candano, 32, a medic of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force (PNP-SAF), chose to stay and…

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