P-Noy’s accountability on Mamasapano tragedy
P-Noy’s accountability on Mamasapano tragedy
By Satur Ocampo
“What decisions did I make? My decisions were based on information available to me at the time, and that’s how I want to be judged.”
That’s how President Aquino premised his “tell-all” speech last Thursday about the tragic Oplan Exodus counterterrorism operation in Mamasapano, Maguindanao on Jan. 25. He deemed his speech before the Philippine National Police Academy 2015 graduates as his “last chance to talk about Mamasapano in particular and to tie everything up, unless further clarifications are sought.”
Two official investigations on that tragedy — by the Senate and by a PNP board of inquiry – have concluded that P-Noy is accountable as Chief Executive and Commander-in-Chief. Specifically he is blamed for having relied on and illegally allowed his friend, suspended PNP Chief Alan Purisima, to continue exercising a major role in the operation.
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