Senate approves bill creating truth body

Exactly one month after the Mamasapano incident, the Senate approved on Wednesday a bill creating a fact-finding body that will look into the killing at least 67 people, 44 of them Special Action Force (SAF) commandos, on January 25.

Dubbed as the Mamasapano Truth Commission, the body as proposed under Senate Bill 2603 will primarily investigate facts and circumstances surrounding the bloody encounter between the SAF troops and combined forces of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).