AFP probes Facebook abuse video
02/20/2011The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said yesterday they are investigating a purported torture video posted on Facebook that appears to show uniformed soldiers abusing defenseless prisoners.
Investigators are checking the identities of the uniformed men shown repeatedly hitting and kicking a group of at least three people in civilian clothes, said military spokesman Brigadier Gen. Jose Mabanta.
“We are the first to be concerned about this. We have said we will not do these (abuses), then we see it right in our faces,” Mabanta told Agence France Presse.
Officials also want to know when and where it happened, if indeed it actually happened, Mabanta said..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110220nat6.html
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