MILF chief negotiator Mohagher Iqbal at a House hearing on the Mamasapano debacle. TV5 SCREENSHOT
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on Wednesday pushed its proposal to have an independent body probe the Mamasapano incident in order to ensure public confidence in the credibility of the investigation's outcome.
The police Board of Inquiry created right after the Jan. 25 mission - where 44 PNP Special Action Force on an anti-terrorist mission who figured in a firefight with MILF rebels were killed - is expected to submit its report on Friday, March 6.
Meanwhile, the MILF's internal investigation report showed none of the MILF members was at fault in the 10-hour gunfight, as all of them were just defending themselves after the police commandos strayed into their territory.
MILF chief negotiator Mohagher Iqbal said they respect government's own investigation, but would not be surprised if the BOI report favors the policemen who were deployed to apprehend Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir alias Marwan and Filipino bomb-maker Abdul Basit Usman in Mamasapano town, Maguindanao. That is why, he stressed, they were batting for an independent body inquiring into the case.
Meanwhile, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said the deliberations on the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), which caps the four-year negotiations with the MILF, should not be delayed in the course of getting justice in the Mamasapano case.
Sen. Teofisto Guingona III agrees. He said a two-track approach is best: Congress continues to review and debate the draft BBL, while the process of finding the truth and giving justice to victims in the Mamasapano case continues.
A member of the government peace panel, Senen Bacani, said scuttling the BBL would mean wasting four years of negotiations with the rebel group, which has been waging war in the South for 17 years.
[Video report]
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/106267/video--milf-insists-on-3rd-party-probers-for-mamasapano-its-internal-report-clears-all-members
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