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Did PNOY really not know?

Police and military officials were blasted by senators yesterday for claiming that they did not inform their commander-in-chief of the Mamasapano operation on Jan. 25, even whilst most of them were in the company of President Benigno Aquino III upon learning of the killings. At the resumption of the Senate hearings on the Mamasapano incident, Senator Nancy Binay asked each security official where he learned about the clash in which 44 police commandos were killed by Moro rebels. […]

Family of unarmed man shot dead by police demands a conviction

The family of an unarmed black man shot and killed by a police officer called for a conviction at the trial, which had started just the other day. On Wednesday, rookie New York City police officer Peter Liang was charged with second-degree manslaughter and five other offenses for the fatal shooting of Akai Gurley inside a dark stairwell of a housing project last November. Officer Liang was patrolling with his partner in the Brooklyn housing […]

Chinese relatives of MH370 arrive in Malaysia to demand answer

Relatives of passengers aboard the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that disappeared nearly a year ago arrived in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur today to seek answers from the Malaysian government and the airline itself. A group of mainly Chinese relatives arrived at the airport wearing red t-shirts that read “Pray for MH370”, in a trip arranged after the government declared flight MH370 an accident, clearing the way for the airline to pay compensation to […]

Iqbal testifies in Senate

For the first time, Mohagher Iqbal, Chief negotiator of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) attended the senate probe of the carnage in Mamasapano, Maguindanao that claimed the lives of 44 Special Action Force (SAF). Mohagher Iqbal didn’t attend the previous hearings happened last February 9 but able to submit a letter on February 10 that was read by representative MILF Coordinating Committee of the Cessation of Hostilities chairman Rashid Ladiasan, part of the letter […]

Sen. Miriam grills Purisima, Napenas, Iqbal on Mamasapano incident, notes MILF’s “bad faith”

Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago grilled resigned Philippine National Police director general Alan Purisima, Special Action Forces chief Getulio Napenas, and Moro Islamic Liberation Front chair Mohagher Iqbal as the senate resumed its inquiry of the Mamasapano incident. Santiago told Purisima that he should not have involved himself in the Mamasapano incident and questioned why he had been meeting with President Aquino regarding the Mamasapano operation, when he was already suspended at the time. Santiago, who […]