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We salute her protest move.
“A female employee of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources on Monday had her head shaved as a call for justice for the 44 elite police commandos killed in the January 25 Mamasapano clash,” reports Dexter Ganibe on ABS-CBNnews.com.
The woman was identified as Bing Manila, former Surigao del Sur provincial environmental officer. She had her head shaved during the oath-taking ceremony of the new officers of the DENR Employees Union.
The report noted: “The DENR employees said people responsible for the deaths of the 44 SAF troops must be brought to justice.”
The encounter in Mamasapano, Maguindanao on Jan 25 left 44 members of the elite Philippine National Police (PNP) Special Action Force (SAF) dead. The PNP-SAF troopers had been out to capture Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir alias “Marwan” and Filipino bomb maker Abdul Basit Usman. Both men had bounties on their heads placed by the U.S. government: US$5 million for Marwan and US$1 million for Usman.
The operation turned bloody when members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said they had to fight back because the PNP-SAF had breached their territory. They alleged that they had not been informed about the operation to get Marwan and Usman. The hostile encounter lasted 11 hours. The MILF lost 18 of their fighters.
Both the government and the MILF are currently doing probes on the Mamsapano encounter to determine what went wrong, as the incident threatens the Bangsamoro peace deal. It has since been revealed that the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and even some armed civilians were also involved in the clash.
Photo: Dexter Ganibe, dzMM (Twitter)
