Investigators have traced the place from where the video linked to the brutal killing of police commandos was uploaded, says Justice Secretary Leila de Lima
'OVERKILL.' Screenshots from the video showing the aftermath of the Mamasapano clash, where police commandos murdered in what the PNP OIC calls an 'overkill.'
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has traced the place from where the video linked to the Mamasapano killing of cops was uploaded, and is now tracking down the person who put it online.
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said on Friday, February 13, NBI agents have also started identifying the persons in the video, which shows alleged Muslim rebels finishing off police commandos in an incident that is now the subject of 8 investigations.
Identifying who originally put the video on the Internet would lead investigators to the identity of the armed men in the video.
De Lima refused to give further details about the location of the video upload.
She said all the information that the NBI's cybercrime division will gather in relation to the material will be included in the packet of evidence that prosecutors are gathering.
“It is certainly part of the evidence already. It is just being evaluated and the Cybercrime Unit of the NBI is also involved,” De Lima said.
Reports identified a former tabloid journalist as having uploaded the video on his Facebook account, allegedly after a source sent him a link where he could download the video. When Rappler contacted him, he backed out of an interview and said he was taking down the post upon the request of some government agencies.
Earlier, the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Commission on Human Rights urged the public not to share the video that has gone viral. CHR Chairperson Rosetta Ann Rosales also asked the public to help identify who uploaded the video.
Malacañang called the person who uploaded the video "heartless," while Moro Islamic Liberation Front chairman Mohagher Iqbal said the executioner in the video was worse than a terrorist. "These are monsters, not people," he told senators on Thursday.
There was a heated debate at the House of Representatives on Wednesday whether to show the video during a committee hearing. The committee decided not to show it, but asked a battalion commander of the SAF to confirm if it was one of his men shown being killed in the video. He positively identified the SAF commando.
Rappler decided against posting the video and used in its stories and newscast only select sanitized screenshots of the parts confirmed by SAF officials as authentic. We are doing so out of respect for the dead men and their families. As a matter of editorial policy, we do not show video depicting the moment of death.
The justice secretary said investigators will likely go to the clash site in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, next week to verify the statements from police and military officials, and to interview witnesses.
They willl be verifying statements from officials and witnesses who have been gathered by the Philippine National Police's Board of Inquiry.
Assistant State Prosecutors Juan Pedro Navera heads the panel formed by the Department of Justice to probe the Mamasapano incident.
The members of the panel are Assistant State Prosecutors Irwin Maraya, Gino Paolo Santiago, and Jocelyn Dugay, and assistant prosecution attorney Ethel Rea Suril.
De Lima said the panel will ask the Moro Islamic Liberation Front to provide it with copies of the affidavits and other evidence it has gathered so far in its own investigation into the incident.
http://www.rappler.com/nation/83847-nbi-tracking-down-uploader-mamasapano-video
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.