SEN. Antonio Trillanes 4th on Monday took to task Sen. Richard Gordon for his “eagerness” to reopen the investigation of the massacre of 44 members of the Special Action Force (SAF) in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in 2015. Trillanes said Gordon, chairman of the Senate blue ribbon and public order committees, expressed no interest in conducting an “exhaustive” probe of extrajudicial killings of drug suspects. He was areacting to Gordon’s plan to invite former President Benigno Aquino 3rd to the inquiry if he gets the go-signal from the Senate leadership to proceed with his plan to reopen the probe of the Mamasapano tragedy. When” it comes to [investigating]thousands of Filipinos getting killed at present, he [Gordon] has no time,” he said. The SAF troops were sent to Mamasapano to arrest Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir and Filipino bombmaker Basit Usman.

Source: Manila Times July 17, 2017 13:52 UTC