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Palace: Take down video of Mamasapano clash


The video showing the brutal killing of a PNP-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) commando during the deadly Mamasapano clash should be taken down from the Internet, Malacañang said Wednesday.
 
"Whoever uploaded that video is a heartless fellow and if you still have some humanity left in your soul, we ask you to take it down," presidential spokesman Secretary Edwin Lacierda said at a press briefing.
 
He added that the Palace does not know yet who uploaded the video, and the motive for doing so.
 
Lacierda nevertheless said that the public has “a right to be angry” over “such a brutal display of violence.
 
"We need to find justice for all of those who died, including the SAF hero who was in that video. And that’s what we intend to do,” he said.
 
Forty-four SAF members were killed last January 25 in a firefight with Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and its breakaway group, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).
 
The police commandos were out to arrest Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir alias Marwan, whose death has been confirmed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Filipino bomb-maker Abdul Basit Usman in Mamasapano, Maguindanao.
 
Two weeks after the incident, a six-minute video clip, titled "Story behind of Mamasapano” was uploaded by a certain Zaldy Baldz Suson showing a wounded trooper on the ground, being shot several times until he was dead.
 
The attacker then proceeded to the other dead troopers, and also stripped them off their gear and equipment.
 
Earlier in the day,  Supt. Reynald Ariño, commanding officer of the PNP's 5th Special Action Battalion, confirmed the man on the video was a SAF officer assigned to the 55th company, which was part of the Mamasapano operation.
 
The video, which drew flak from angry netizens, also showed other gunmen taking the gear of other dead troopers.
 
Senators also condemned the brutal killing of the SAF officer as shown in the video. —NB, GMA News
 
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