FRONTLINE |
Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
What really puzzles me about the hostage crisis that ended in a bloodbath where eight Hong Kong tourists were killed and eight more wounded, was the behavior of the tourist bus driver, all of which acts he did just do not make too much sense.
First, the bus driver who was driving a private bus whose passengers were all Hong Kong tourists, allows an armed man whom he claims he does not know, to step into the bus, while giving him a free ride.
Now why should a bus driver with tourists as passengers, do that, considering that sacked police officer Rolando Mendoza was a stranger to him — or so he claimed — and armed, to boot? He was already placing his passengers at risk by doing that. No responsible tourist bus driver would give an armed stranger a free ride — not even when claims are made that he would serve as their security.
This country — Manila included — is filled with criminals. People get kidnapped, people get killed, people get tortured, so do tourists and foreigner residents. Why then would a bus driver readily allow Mendoza, an armed stranger to him, into the bus, even to give him a free ride? That is not his job. His job is to drive the bus, and bring the tourists to places in Metro Manila for them to see.
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100911com2.html
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