No messing up on this, too FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/29/2010

No messing up on this, too

FRONTLINE

Ninez Cacho-Olivares

08/29/2010
Another crisis may just blow up on the faces of Noynoy Aquino and his government, which includes the police force, if they don’t watch every step they make, because China and Hong Kong are definitely watching the Aquino government and how it handles the crime lab findings, yet another crisis is likely to erupt, giving the country yet another big blackeye.

As things stand, it was pretty stupid of a police crime lab officer to come up with an initial finding of who really killed the hostages — whether it was the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team that did, via “friendly fire” or that of the hostage taker, sacked police officer Rolando Mendoza, when he snapped.

Just what did the crime lab officer say that was stupid? Something about his saying that he can state, “with a degree of certainty” that the foreign hostages were killed by Mendoza, adding that these initial findings are based on witnesses’ accounts. And all these despite the fact that there has not been any forensic examination done, nor was there even any ballistic testing.

Hong Kong authorities have already reacted to this statement, pointing out that the hostages who survived the carnage were not even interviewed at all..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100829com2.html