China gets first crack at hostage crisis report
By Aytch S. de la Cruz
09/19/2010
The Chinese government will likely have the first crack at the much-anticipated report of the fact-finding body headed by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on the bloody outcome of the Aug. 23 hostage crisis that cost the lives of eight Hong Kong tourists as the Palace indicated yesterday that relaying the report to China ahead of the whole country proves that the Aquino administration will not be resorting to a whitewash.
Speculations that a “whitewash” on the Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC) report on the Manila bus siege tragedy at Quirino Grandstand last Aug. 23 is afoot have been floated since Friday or as soon as the President was handed a copy of the report by De Lima when Malacañang refused to give a preview on the content of the report.
De Lima said the contents of the IIRC report will definitely be made public tomorrow.
She added that the report is 83 pages long and that 12 government officials will be charged for the bungled rescue operations on the bus of Hong Kong tourists commandeered by disgruntled policeman Senior Insp. Rolando Mendoza. Mendoza was later slain by a sniper’s bullet after an 11-hour standoff.
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100919hed1.html
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