{"id":57471,"date":"2015-07-29T11:05:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T03:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=57471"},"modified":"2025-01-16T10:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:20:17","slug":"kin-questions-oversight-of-saf-44-in-aquinos-sona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/29\/kin-questions-oversight-of-saf-44-in-aquinos-sona\/","title":{"rendered":"Kin questions oversight of SAF 44 in Aquino\u2019s SONA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_57472\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57472\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/10983430_1128120523887360_6549523595913004860_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57472\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/10983430_1128120523887360_6549523595913004860_n.jpg\" alt=\"President Aquino talks to the families of the slain 44 Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) commandos at Camp Crame. (Photo from Aquino's official Facebook page)\" width=\"960\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/10983430_1128120523887360_6549523595913004860_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/10983430_1128120523887360_6549523595913004860_n-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Aquino talks to the families of the slain 44 Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) commandos at Camp Crame. (Photo from Aquino&#8217;s official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/presidentnoy\/timeline\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Several family members of the slain Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) commandos were disappointment with the oversight of the troopers\u2019 sacrifices in President Benigno \u201cNoynoy\u201d Aquino III\u2019s sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA).<\/p>\n<p>In his two-hour SONA, Aquino mentioned the killing of international terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir, alias \u201cMarwan,\u201d but did not mention the Moro rebels\u2019 massacre of the PNP-SAF commandos.<\/p>\n<p>Erica Pabalinas, widow of Senior Inspector Ryan Pabalinas, earlier called on Aquino to help them attain justice.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy symbicort online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northwestphysicians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/symbicort.html\">https:\/\/www.northwestphysicians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/symbicort.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> \u00a0But with the President\u2019s oversight in his speech, Pabalinas was only discouraged.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy propecia online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northwestphysicians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/propecia.html\">https:\/\/www.northwestphysicians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/propecia.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just saddened by the fact that there was no mention (of the slain PNP-SAF policemen). He could have thanked those who sacrificed their lives\u2026 He just showed that he is just good for his own interest,\u201d she said in a Philippine Daily Inquirer report.<\/p>\n<p>Merly Gamutan, widow of Inspector Joey Gamutan, did not even both to watch Aquino\u2019s SONA as she did not expect anything good from it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know there was nothing to it\u2026 He\u2019s guilty, that\u2019s why he did not mention the SAF 44,\u201d she said in the same report.<\/p>\n<p>Rico Erana, father of slain Senior Inspector John Gary Erana, blamed the President for his loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf not for him, the SAF 44 would still be alive today. It is as if he doesn\u2019t care that it happened. In his SONA, he did not give importance to the lives of those killed just to get Marwan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Malaca\u00f1ang, for their part, clarified that Aquino did not intend an oversight of the slain PNP-SAF commandos in his SONA. Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. even cited the President\u2019s earlier statement that he \u2018will carry this until the end of my days.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Several family members of the slain Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) commandos were disappointment with the oversight &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":57472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-57471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57471","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284558,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57471\/revisions\/284558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}