<div> 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.</div><div> </div><div> "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.</div><div> </div><div> He added that the Palace does not know yet who uploaded the video, and the motive for doing so.</div><div> </div><div> Lacierda nevertheless said that the public has “a right to be angry” over “such a brutal display of violence.</div><div> </div><div> "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.</div><div> </div><div> 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).</div><div> </div><div> 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.</div><div> </div><div> 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.</div><div> </div><div> The attacker then proceeded to the other dead troopers, and also stripped them off their gear and equipment.</div><div> </div><div> Earlier in the day, Supt. Reynald Ariño, commanding officer of the PNP's 5th Special Action Battalion, <a href="/news/story/433272/news/nation/pnp-saf-commanding-officer-confirms-55th-company-trooper-was-in-killing-video">confirmed the man on the video was a SAF officer</a> assigned to the 55th company, which was part of the Mamasapano operation.</div><div> </div><div> The video, which drew flak from angry netizens, also showed other gunmen taking the gear of other dead troopers.</div><div> </div><div> Senators also condemned the <a href="/news/story/433356/news/nation/senators-condemn-brutal-attack-on-pnp-saf-man">brutal killing of the SAF officer</a> as shown in the video. <strong>—NB, GMA News</strong></div><div> </div>
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