Manila Hostage Taking Crisis

This is a clip from the hottest issue our country is going through right now. The Manila hostage taking crisis where eight people were killed and nine were injured. The incident happened on August 23, 2010 at the Quirino Grand Stand where former police Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza hijacked a tour bus carrying 25 people (20 tourists and a tour guide all from Hong Kong and 4 Filipinos) in attempt to get his job back. He said that he was summarily dismissed without the opportunity to defend himself, and that all he wanted was a fair hearing. After about ten hours into the siege, the Filipino bus driver was able to get out of the bus by falling through the driver's bus window and was shown into television saying everyone is dead before being whisked away by police. This result to shoot out and watched by millions on live television news and took around 90 minutes. At the end, eight hostages and the hostage taker were dead and nine were injured. The Hong Kong Government soon issued a "black" travel alert for the Philippines. The assault on the tour bus to rescue was widely regarded as bungled and incompetent. The Philippine government admitted the errors and promised to investigate and report it all to the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong SAR governments.




Sincere condolences for the family of the victims. We can't blame the Hong Kong government for issuing a 'black" travel alert for our country but let just all hope that they accept our apologies and realize that not all Filipinos are like former senior inspector Mendoza. We can't blame no one because we're not in their positions we don't know what really happened and what are they really thinking back then although we watched it live on the television news. That's all I can say right now let's just wait for further investigations.