Mar offers sympathy to families of slain SAF men in Baguio. At the Church of the Resurrection in Baguio on Monday, February 2, DILG Secretary Mar Roxas II consoles with Janet Carap, widow of PNP-SAF PO2 Peterson Carap, a Cordillera native and one of the 44 elite police commandos killed in the infamous January 25 Mamasapano clash. Carap asked Roxas to speed up the investigation and resolution to the ongoing probe on the police operation. Dave Leprozo
Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said the police Board of Inquiry’s probe on the Mamasapano clash that killed 44 elite police commandos will be “transparent and truthful.”
“To show respect to those who lost their loved ones in the incident, we will make sure that the board will be transparent and truthful,” Roxas told 200 Special Action Force (SAF) troopers at Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig on Sunday.
He also asked Filipinos to give the BOI, which was formed last week, a chance to get to the bottom of what happened in the Maguindanao town.
“Like all of you, I am very interested to know the results of the investigation of the Board of Inquiry, for us to know the truth. Let us patiently wait for the report and see the findings of the board,” he said.
The BOI tapped Police Deputy Director and Officer-in-Charge Leonardo Espina, Police Director Edgardo Ingking of the Directorate for Integrated Police Operations in Western Mindanao, and Chief Superintendent Catalino Rodrigo of the Directorate for Human Resource and Doctrine Development to “dig into the lapses and determine and suggest solution to possible future doctrinal, tactical and operational issues,” according to a DILG statement.
Roxas has said the BOI will tackle the “tactical level” of the firefight and will determine if there were any operational lapses that led to the firefight.
Espina, for his part, said the board will determine if the officers who led the SAF operations would be administratively or criminally liable for the deaths of their men.
On Jan. 25, the SAF troopers had a daylong firefight with members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in Mamasapano town in Maguindanao.
AFP: DNA test to confirm Marwan’s death
Meanwhile, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said Monday that it announced the death of Marwan in February 2012, based on the existing intelligence data at the time.
“However, the former AFP chief of staff General Jessie Dellosa did not endorse the approval of the cash reward claim for the informant because there was a validated report that Marwan was able to escape unharmed,” AFP said.
