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Special Action-Force Tragedy in the Phillipines

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Being a President of the State is perhaps one of the greatest achievements an ordinary individual can attain. On the other hand, being the President of the State demands everything of you. Family, safety, time, health, principles, priorities, and your decisions are always are factor to decide what’s best for your countrymen. When you become a president of a nation, you don’t get to just sit there and command all your executives to do all the talking and everything else. You become more like a father of a huge family with a lot of members, who's bright future you need to assure them. President Benigno Aquino III has been serving us for almost five years. I am not actually a fan any high ranking politicians here in our country, but as a citizen of our beloved country I can say that our honorable president is doing well in his tenure of his duty. And few of the political analysts have already said that. On January 25, 2015, a police operation was conducted at Tukanalipao, Mamasapano, Maguindanao, between the Special Action Force (SAF) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) (allegedly joined by United States Army Special Forces and the Federal Bureau of Investigation) and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The operation was called Oplan Wolverine or Oplan Exodus by the PNP-SAF. Originally, the mission was to serve arrests warrants for high-ranking terrorists, but it led to the deaths of 44 members of SAF, 16 from MILF and BIFF, and several civilians, and the death of Zulkifli Abdhir (one of the wanted terrorists) confirmed by the FBI and the PNP at 6:30p.m. of February 4, 2015 due to his matched DNA result. The death of 44 members of SAF had awakened and unfolded our awareness of what our law enforcers and peace makers really do out there in the field. We did not know them personally but we knew that they were doing their works without complaining or questi

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