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Tag: Mamasapano tragedy

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    Why did Aquino float the ‘baseless alternative truth’?

    Sep 18, 2015 8:48 AM

                   By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS  A week after he floated an “alternative version” to the killing of  Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli “Marwan”bin Hir last January which also cost the lives of 63 people, 44 of them members of the elite Special Action Force of the Philippine National Police, President Aquino […]

    Mamasapano tragedy, SAF44

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    Mar forgot to tell PNoy about BOI request

    Mar 19, 2015 1:17 AM

      Interior Secretary Mar Roxas forgot to tell President Aquino of the request Police Director Benjamin Magalong to interview him before the Board of Inquiry on the Mamasapaano tragedy released their report last March 13, ABS-CBN reported. Magalong said he met with Aquino in Malacañang on Tuesday together with Roxas and Philippine National Police Officer-in-Charge […]

    BOI-PNP, Mamasapano tragedy

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    Poe to Aquino: Be a leader, tell the truth

    Mar 18, 2015 6:25 AM

                                      By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS READING President Aquino’s speech before the 2015 graduates of the Philippine Military Academy last Sunday, I got the impression that he is isolated from the real world outside Malacañang. For how does one who has to suffer daily the monstrous Metro Manila traffic and the inefficiency of the MRT accept […]

    Fallen44, Grace Poe, Mamasapano tragedy

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    BOI requested for interview with Aquino

    Mar 16, 2015 10:29 PM

    By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IT is not true that the Board of Inquiry did not try to ask the side of President Aquino on the Jan. 25 Mamasapano tragedy that claimed 67 lives including 44 of the country’s elite police commandos, 18 members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, and five civilians, including an eight-year […]

    BOI-PNP report, Fallen44, Mamasapano tragedy

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    Grief lingers a month after the Mamasapano tragedy

    Feb 26, 2015 3:13 PM

      By JOHNNA VILLAVIRAY GIOLAGON TUKANALIPAO, Mamasapano – The old woman sat gravely in a corner of an unfinished classroom in Mamasapano town as an officer from the regional government explained that her group will be receiving complimentary health insurance. Her head was covered with a maroon hijab, the bright color belying the sorrow in […]

    Mamasapano tragedy, SAF44

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    Sarah

    Feb 19, 2015 9:30 PM

      By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THE tragedy in Mamasapano, Maguindanao claimed the lives of 44 of the country’s elite policemen, 18 members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and some civilians. One of those who died was an eight-year old girl named Sarah. I learned about Sarah from Hussein Macarambon’s Facebook heart-rending post: “ At […]

    Mamasapano tragedy

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