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The Armed Forces of the Philippines on Saturday urged the Moro Islamic Liberation Front to release the results of its probe into the firefight between its men and the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force troopers. AFP public affairs chief Lt. Col. Harold Cabunoc told GMA News Online on Saturday that releasing the results of the MILF investigation to the public will show the group’s sincerity in the ongoing peace process. “Kailangan nilang ma-convince ang public sa sinseridad nila,” he said, adding, “Transparency and accountability ang hiling natin, kailangan nilang isapubliko ito.” Cabunoc said this after MILF chief peace negotiator Mohagher Iqbal said the results of the MILF probe on the Mamasapano incident are only for his group, and will only be released upon request. He added that the MILF is already 90 to 95 percent done with its probe into the bloody encounter. Iqbal also disagreed with the idea of a joint probe between the MILF and the government on the bloodbath. “I don’t think that would be a good decision. Let it be. Whatever the findings of the Board of Inquiry, Let it stand. In the same way, whatever the findings of the MILF investigative team will put forward, let it stand,” he said. On January 25, 44 PNP-SAF members were killed in a firefight with the MILF and its breakaway group, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF). The clash occurred despite a peace deal signed by the MILF and the Philippine government in March last year. The police commanders supposedly entered Read More …

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Fifty-one-year-old Australian national Peter Gerard Scully, who is now under the custody of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Northern Mindanao office, had reportedly made money by broadcasting his acts – against girls as young as one-year-old – over the Internet to clients in as far as Europe. “Scully performed sexual acts according to his client’s instructions and fantasy,” Angelito Magno, NBI director in the region, told the Inquirer late Friday. Scully was arrested inside his rented house in Barangay in Barangay Violeta in Malaybalay City after a three-week stakeout by combined elements of the police’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), local NBI operatives and from the NBI’s anti-trafficking division in Manila, representatives from the Australian and the Dutch police and operatives of the International Police (Interpol). The operation was said to be covered by the Mutual Assistance Legal Treaty (MLAT) the Philippines had signed with several countries. Senior Supt. Alexander Tagum, the CIDG head for Northern Mindanao, said Scully had been the subject of an international investigation on human trafficking after police investigators in the Netherlands uncovered his activities on the Internet, where he broadcast his sexual intercourse with young girls. “He lured young girls into his house and gained their trusts, including false promises of sending them to school and feeding them. He performs sexual abuses on the girls and then he broadcast his activities on the Internet,” Czar Eric Nuqui, chief of the NBI’s anti-human trafficking division, said. Tagum said many Read More …

According to NBI Director Virgilio Mendez, they have identified the individuals who uploaded the video showing the coldblooded killing of PO2 Joseph Sagonoy. The cellphone video was purportedly taken by Muslim rebels during the Jan. 25, 2014 encounter between the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebel group. The video shows a wounded Sagonoy who is shot twice in the head at close range …