‘Did they get aid as promised?’ Aquino kept asking of SAF 44 kin: ex-spokeswoman
After stepping down, the late President Benigno Aquino III continued to check on the families of the 44 Special Action Forces (SAF) troops killed in the top-secret Mamasapano operation, an incident that rocked his administration late and threatened to derail his peace deal with a Moro rebel group.