Soon after graduating and donning the police uniform, Sakinu was stationed at a public square where protests were taking place. It was the tail end of the Aboriginal rights movement of 1996.
當警校剛畢業的撒可努穿上警察制服鎮守在示威廣場時，正趕上民國 80 年代原住民抗爭運動的尾聲。