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| Jonathan De la Cruz |
There is no rhyme or reason to the piecemeal issuance by the Aquino administration of the results of the investigation on the Luneta hostage tragedy. What is the point? Justice Secretary Leila de Lima has already disclosed most of the contents of that report in a series of daily briefings up to the weekend. She has said that the hostage taker, discharged cop Rolando Mendoza, shot all of the hostages after initially titillating us with the possibility that friendly fire may have caused some of the deaths. Then, P-Noy himself said heads will roll and that in time the Palace will make the report public without any censorship. And now this! Calling it a provisional or a first report with a caveat about its possible re-examination by Palace lawyers reeks with all kinds of dire possibilities. In fact, it comes very, very close to insinuating that the report is open to some adjustments, fair or foul, and from whatever source, here and abroad, which manages to whisper the same to the right people on the way to its final printing?
What makes this striptease even more objectionable is the release of the results to the Chinese first which was announced to everybody’s chagrin, later on retracted and finally reaffirmed by P-Noy himself. That was another fumble as grave in its repercussions as the handling of the crisis on that fateful day itself. Again, what was the point? P-Noy is our Chief Executive, not the Chinese’s, and he is answerable first and foremost to his bosses, the Filipino people, not to any other. Unless, of course, his advisers have some other funny thoughts about the handling of tragic incidents such as this. Is reparing our relations with the Chinese as was the drift of that initial Palace issuance more important than coming clean and unvarnished with the Filipino public?.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100922com4.html
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