Messing it up some more
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Insensitive is the right word to describe the presidential spokesman’s dismissal of the request from the Hong Kong survivors and relatives of the hostages killed by the gun man during a botched rescue operation, to meet with Noynoy.
Noynoy, through his mouthpiece rejected the request, even stressing that this asked-for meeting would be flavored with politics, since the Hong Kongers would be accompanied by a opposition parliamentarian.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda declared last Wednesday that Noynoy will not receive them despite their request for an audience, adding that this group of Hong Kongers is being accompanied by a politician seeking an elective post in Hong Kong’s upcoming elections and that the Philippines would not want to be dragged into Hong Kong politics.
Lacierda also intimated that there is no need for Noynoy to meet with the Hong Kong group since the government already has taken steps to address the tragedy in Luneta — both administratively; both in making sure that the tourists are safe; and also in prosecuting those officials as recommended by the second IIRC report..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110820com1.html
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