Lim to snub Hong Kong invite
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| Louie Logarta |
Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim, who can probably be considered the star witness in the Aug. 23, 2010 Luneta hostage-taking incident which claimed the lives of eight Chinese nationals, has indignantly declared he won’t be joining the delegation being sent by the Philippine government to participate in the investigation to be conducted next month by the Hong Kong Coroner’s Office.
Reacting to reports that the Department of Justice had given the go-signal to the request of Hong Kong authorities to send a total of 116 witnesses (after being told they could not be prosecuted) to stand as resource persons in the proceedings that are scheduled to start on Feb. 15 and last for 25 days, the 81-year-old Mayor Lim said he is disinclined to accede to this since he believes it is “useless” considering that the Malacañang-appointed Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC) had already carried out a similar exercise and in fact had already issued its findings and recommendations in an exhaustive 83-page report several months ago..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110123com4.html
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