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I got this text message: “You hate Filipinos for the hostage fiasco last week, right? But I don’t hate the Chinese for lead poisoning (of toys) and melamine contamination (in milk, wherein not eight, but hundreds, maybe even thousands suffered? I don’t think it right to blame a whole nation for the mistake of one man.”
The reactions continue, ranging from the sane to the outrageous, the calming to the provoking, all the way to the simply invented. Circulating on Facebook are letters from supposed survivors, but at this point no one knows what’s real and what’s made up.
This, for instance, is said to be spurious, parts of it going: “The hostage taker, as you know him was really nice. He treated us okay and even let the elders and the children leave the bus. He said your policemen treated him unfairly. He was a policeman too and was accused of doing something he had no knowledge of. But your government didn’t listen so he used us to get everyone’s attention.
“Things would have never turned for the worst if he didn’t see how his family was dragged out of their house and taken into custody. He was watching the news all the time as we huddled around each other behind the bus. He shouted some words in your language then started shooting in the air. A girl about my age started screaming. Mr. (Rolando) Mendoza demanded her to stop but she didn’t understand English. God, he had to slash her neck with a knife just to put her to rest. Her boyfriend who tried to hit him was shot in the head.”
Doubt on the authenticity of the document sprung up after the Chinese government released an official list of the hostages, and Bang Lu Min, the supposed signatory was not one of them.... MORESource: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100903com4.html
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