{"id":41923,"date":"2015-02-11T16:52:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T08:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=41923"},"modified":"2015-02-11T22:57:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T14:57:45","slug":"doj-orders-nbi-to-examine-authenticity-of-video-footage-of-alleged-mamasapano-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/11\/doj-orders-nbi-to-examine-authenticity-of-video-footage-of-alleged-mamasapano-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ orders NBI to examine authenticity of video footage of alleged Mamasapano encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42009\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42009\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mamasapano.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42009\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mamasapano.jpg\" alt=\"Mamasapano, Maguindanao\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mamasapano, Maguindanao<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Leila M. De Lima has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation-Anti-Cybercrime Division (NBI-ACD) to immediately examine the authenticity of a video footage that was posted on the internet about the alleged encounter in Mamasapano, Maguindanao on Jan. 25, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The six-minute video footage was posted on the Facebook and Youtube.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows the alleged aftermath of the shooting incident that took place in a cornfield, with individuals clad in \u201ccamouflage\u201d who were though injured, were even shot in close range.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was not clear whether the members of the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) were the ones being shot in close range on the video.<\/p>\n<p>According to De Lima, it is important that the authenticity of the video should be confirmed because it can be used as evidence in the investigation they are now conducting.<\/p>\n<p>De Lima said that such barbaric killing should not be ignored and those responsible in the said killing, which is considered as \u201coverkill\u201d, should be identified and held liable.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ Chief explained that even in the middle of conflict, where a war or armed conflict, there are prevailing rules of conduct or war conduct wherein if a person is already incapacitated, he should neither be harmed anymore nor even be killed.<\/p>\n<p>De Lima added that the same is also violative of the existing \u201cInternational Humanitarian Law\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Leila M. De Lima has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation-Anti-Cybercrime Division (NBI-ACD) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-perfecto-t-raymundo-jr","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}