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Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz |
Still going on in its hideous reality, its shameful significance and detestable implications, the now so called recently experienced hostage “crisis,” “phenomenon” and similar nomenclature, remains a ignominious entry in Philippine history. Its open and extensive staging in no less than a signal place in the heart of Metro-Manila — plus its rather prolonged “real time” video coverage by international media for the whole world to witness — cannot be faulted in its vivid and impressive presentation, showing both its shocking nature and pitiful consequences. While some foreigners irremediably lost their lives, this country as a whole, lost not only its face but its honor as well.
In other words, the hostage debacle exhibited for the world to witness to, in no less than a prominent open park named even after a Filipino great hero, is something guaranteed to remain in local stinging memory and bitter foreign recall.
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100912com7.html
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