Senator Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said on Tuesday the
reopening of the Senate inquiry into the 2015 Mamasapano incident will affect
the passage of the proposed Bangamoro Basic Law (BBL) if new issues will arise
during the reinvestigation.
”I think it will affect if there is new information that
will come out,” Marcos said in a media interview at the sideline of his visit
in Barangay Commonwealth ,
Quezon City
Last Monday, Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano
announced that the Senate Committee on Rules has granted the request of Senate
Minority Leader Juan Ponce Enrile to reopen the bloody Mamasapano encounter
between the elite Special Action Force of the Philippine National Police (PNP)
and Moro rebels in Mamasapano, Maguindanao on Jan. 25 last year.
Enrile was in detention for plunder charges in connection
with the pork barrel scam when the Senate Committee on Public Order and
Dangerous Drugs chaired by Senator Grace Poe conducted inquiries into the
incident that left 44 SAF commandos dead.
The 91-year-old lawmaker got temporary freedom only last
August and four months later, he moved to reinvestigate the incident to clarify
what the government did during the 11-hour encounter.
Despite the reopening of the Mamasapano investigation, Marcos
said the plenary debates on the BBL’s substitute bill, the Basic Law on the
Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (BLBAR), can proceed.
”We can continue our deliberations on the BLBAR,” Marcos
said.
He said the reopening of the Mamasapano probe will provide
justice to the families of the SAF commandos killed in the encounter that took
place while the government forces were on a mission to arrest international
terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir, alias Marwan. The bomb expert was killed in the
operation.
”To give justice to the victims, we have to look back on
what really happened, we have to know who should be charged and perhaps provide
the Justice department with all the information so it can act swiftly on this,”
Marcos said.
Meanwhile, Poe welcomed the decision of the Rules Committee
to give go-signal for the additional hearings.
”It's good that the Rules Committee gave a go-signal that
additional hearing/s can be called, in response to Minority Leader Enrile's
request to call such, citing his personal information, and possibly new
evidence,” Poe said in a press statement.
Poe said the reopening of the Mamasapano probe “will not
affect or void our earlier findings.”
Poe set the additional hearing on Jan. 25 at the session
hall of the Philippine Senate.
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