{"id":44375,"date":"2015-03-09T16:02:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T08:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=44375"},"modified":"2015-03-09T16:02:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T08:02:47","slug":"families-of-fallen-saf-commandos-want-aquinos-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/09\/families-of-fallen-saf-commandos-want-aquinos-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Families of fallen SAF commandos want Aquino&#8217;s apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42953\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/noy-aquino-pnp-saf-families.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42953\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/noy-aquino-pnp-saf-families-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"In a surprise visit to Camp Crame last night, President Benigno S. Aquino III and members of his Cabinet met with the families of the 44 PNP Special Action Force troopers. The President talked with each family, spending several hours at Crame. \u2014 February 18, 2015. (Photo: Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau)\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/noy-aquino-pnp-saf-families-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/noy-aquino-pnp-saf-families.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a surprise visit to Camp Crame last night, President Benigno S. Aquino III and members of his Cabinet met with the families of the 44 PNP Special Action Force troopers. The President talked with each family, spending several hours at Crame. \u2014 February 18, 2015. (Photo: Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Families of the Cordillera warriors who were killed during the Mamasapano, Maguidanao want to hear apology from President Aquino and have him take responsibility for the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn apology is all we ask. We want President Aquino to accept responsibility for [Mamasapano], apologize publicly and sincerely and then investigate the one who gave those orders that led to the deaths of our family members,\u201d Celestino Bilog, a kin of one of the police officer said in an interview for the Philippine Daily Inquirer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis issue would not have gone unanswered this long had the President simply stepped up and apologized,\u201d he\u00a0added.<\/p>\n<p>He added that act would have enraged the public and force Aquino to fasten up punishment for the people who made the mistakes in the execution of the operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe may have been given bad information. He may have been told that everything was going right so he was confident about the mission succeeding. But he could have stopped all [the tension],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bilog also defended\u00a0Director Getulio Nape\u00f1as Jr. and expressed disappointment on the way he was being treated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was following someone else\u2019s orders so he should not shoulder all the blame,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur grieving has not ended. We have not been able to join the assemblies organized by the government outside Baguio City because we cannot leave this city until we have completed our burial rituals for [Bilog],\u201d\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Families of the Cordillera warriors who were killed during the Mamasapano, Maguidanao want to hear apology from President &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":42953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44375","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=44375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}