DON’T OPPOSE NEW MAMASAPANO PROBE!

Jan. 7, 2016

If there is nothing to hide, no one should oppose or belittle the reopening of the Senate investigation into the Mamasapano massacre of the PNP-SAF 44. Whoever does so should be included in the probe. Instead, everybody should welcome the new probe.  It will be another chance to find out the whole truth, the true story before, during and after the massacre. Whether Malacanang or anybody else admits it or not, there are still KEY QUESTIONS which have not been 100 PERCENT clarified.

Foremost of which is the supposed ‘stand-down’ order given by PNoy to commandoes on standby who had asked for permission to rescue their beleaguered 44 comrades.  Let’s keep in mind, people, that the stand-by commandoes were just meters away from the encounter site. The SAF 44 were already being slaughtered as they desperately radioed for reinforcements but as well know, no one came until they were all dead. What could have been more important than saving men whom you knew were dying just meters away from their comrades who could have saved them?

Malacanang has denied PNoy’s supposed ‘stand down’ order. But again, there‘s no blow-by-blow account of what he did or what orders he issued as commander-in-chief to rescue the SAF 44. He was regularly briefed of what’s going on since morning of that day. Worse, PNoy took about a week or so AFTER THE MASSACRE before he re-appeared in public to talk about it. WHAT KEPT HIS MOUTH SHUT for so long, considering that the SAF 44 were his men and they were massacred?

Why were PNP survivors isolated from the media and the public for several days right after the massacre? Why couldn’t any member of media interview them? And lastly, government and MILF peace negotiators were also reportedly informed of what was happening to the SAF 44 early that day to help stop the fighting immediately  Still, the battle raged for hours until the SAF 44 were annihilated. What exactly did the two sides do and talk about?

The Mamasapano massacre isn’t a dead horse, yet.  Unless somebody ‘kills’ it, once and for all.30