{"id":41952,"date":"2015-02-12T00:59:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T16:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=41952"},"modified":"2015-02-12T00:59:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T16:59:31","slug":"senators-condemn-gruesome-killing-of-saf-troops-as-seen-in-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/12\/senators-condemn-gruesome-killing-of-saf-troops-as-seen-in-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators condemn gruesome killing of SAF troops as seen in video"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39246\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/senate-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39246\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/senate-1.jpg\" alt=\"Senate opens first session for 2015 on Tuesday (Jan. 20, 2015) at the Senate Building in Pasay City. (PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan)\" width=\"1500\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/senate-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/senate-1-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/senate-1-1024x490.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate of the Philippines, Pasay City (PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Senators have condemned the gruesome killing of a member of the Special Action Force (SAF) as shown in a video clip that went viral on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe strongly condemn the gruesome killing and barbaric atrocities done to our Special Action Force members in Mamasapano, Maguindanao,\u201d Senator Paolo Benigno Aquino IV said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr., whose committee on local government is hearing the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law, said he cannot process what he saw in a latest video that has already more than 1.5 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIt is such a gruesome, horrible piece of video that I still cannot process it,\u201d Marcos said in media interview.<\/p>\n<p>The video showed how the attacker shot twice a wounded SAF man on the head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThis really enraged me because you can see the SAF man was still alive,\u201d Senator Joseph Victor \u2018JV\u2019 Ejercito said.<\/p>\n<p>During the House of Representatives hearing on the Mamasapano encounter on Wednesday, Supt. Reynald Ari\u00f1o, Commanding Officer of the PNP&#8217;s 5th Special Action Battalion, confirmed that the man who was shot twice was member of the SAF\u2019s 55th company.<\/p>\n<p>Aquino urged the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to surrender their combatants, who along with the forces of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) engaged the SAF commandos, resulting in the death of 44 SAF men in Mamasapano, Maguindanao last Jan. 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIn the strongest possible terms, we call on the MILF to surrender the combatants and submit them to the appropriate processes of our justice system,\u201d Aquino said.<\/p>\n<p>Aquino also asked the leadership of the MILF to attend the ongoing Senate hearings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThey should answer the difficult questions that plague our nation. The road to peace must not set aside justice and accountability,\u201d Aquino said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Senators have condemned the gruesome killing of a member of the Special Action Force (SAF) as shown in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":39246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-jelly-f-musico","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41952","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=41952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}