HK tourists in Manila bus hijack

last SG · 2010-08-24T16:28:01+00:00

From the news, China is extremely furious over how the Philippines police handled the situation and is demanding the Philippines govt to conduct a thorough i...

meltz SG

i saw this on my friend's FB..

Sorry

Aint

Trained...

:lol: taiwan ppl just call them 特别没种部队（特种部队 swat in chinese)

meltz SG

since how good the police r ... camera crew can go in freely to film the crime scene when the police are gathering evidences .. anyone can just step in and destroy the evidences ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crDvZXNqoyI

fudgester SG

Chinese anger as Philippine flag draped over gunman's coffin

MANILA - The Chinese government expressed outrage on Friday after television footage showed a Philippine flag draped over the coffin of a gunman who hijacked a busload of Hong Kong tourists.

"The person who deserves a national flag at (their) funeral should be someone of heroism, decency and integrity, not someone who inflicts atrocity on innocent lives," the Chinese embassy in Manila said in a statement.

"This is nothing but a smear on the dignity of the Philippine national flag."

Sacked policeman Rolando Mendoza hijacked a bus that was carrying a group of Hong Kong tourists in Manila on Monday in a bid to be cleared of extortion charges and get his job back.

Eight of the tourists on board the bus were killed in the final stages of the 12-hour siege, which finally ended when police shot Mendoza dead.

Police said they believed Mendoza killed all eight of the victims but are carrying out tests to ensure the rescuers did not shoot any of the captives.

The Chinese government has expressed anger over the Philippine government's handling of the hostage crisis, and the flag issue is likely to stoke tensions.

"The Chinese embassy in the Philippines condemns the brutality of the criminal and expresses its strong indignation over this irritating act," the statement said.

The flag was draped over Mendoza's coffin on Friday during his wake at his family's home in Tuanauan town, about two hours' drive south of Manila.

Following the Chinese embassy statement, the government moved quickly to have the flag removed and police said his family likely draped it over the coffin. Mendoza's funeral will be held on Saturday.

Linkie: http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20100827-234314.html

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National flag draped over the gunman's coffin?!?!?!

What, the gunman is now a national hero in the Philippines, is it?!?!?!

bus555 SG

This is showing that Phillipines is being lame

I wonder if countries like US is liddat?

ditzy SG

i saw this on my friend's FB..

Sorry

Aint

Trained...

Sewage waste and trash.

zichuan SG

si bei bo liao la honkies die is suay lei, whole world kpkb for wad? as if can bring dem bac to life.. their life already becum 7th mth suay ghost liao loh

TehJarVu SG

hanor hanor

si ditzy so fast come back

meltz SG

菲律宾特蠢部队

ditzy SG

hanor hanor

si ditzy so fast come back

You didnt go what, i stay for what? watch tv?

sbst275 SG

now report saying those are trainee, not e real SOC ppl...

yeah, e SQ117 incident was well executed.

TTFU SG

Sorry

Aint

Trained

QX179R SG

Scores at hijacker's funeral

TANAUAN (Philippines) - SCORES of friends and family turned out Saturday to bury the slain ex-policeman who this week hijacked a bus in Manila, leading to a crisis in which eight Hong Kong tourists died.

Even as the government tried to distance itself from the incident, over a hundred people gathered at Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza's home, to remember him for his police honours and not for Monday's tragic events.

'There are so many mourners because he was a good man. You never heard about him doing anything bad,' said warehouse worker Mark Torres, a family friend attending the wake in Tanauan, a small city south of Manila.

Francisco Misaba, a district watchman, said he had been assigned to manage the traffic because many people were expected to attend Mendoza's funeral mass and burial later in the day. 'There will be plenty of people attending because he had a lot of friends. Just about everyone in the district was his friend,' he said.

Mendoza's family has refused to grant press interviews. But at his wake, which is being held in Mendoza's home, they put his numerous citations on display alongside many floral wreaths sent by fellow policemen.

Mendoza, a decorated police officer who had been sacked over extortion charges, took a bus-load of Hong Kong tourists hostage in Manila on Monday, demanding to be reinstated. This led to a siege of the bus and muddled police negotiations that ended bloodily, with Mendoza and eight of the tourists shot dead. -- AFP

SingaporeTyrannosaur SG

ehh... if I nv remember wrongly... 1991 some 4 terrorist hijack one of our SIA plane...

They were wiped out in a short period of time with all terrorist down and no casualities... Taken out by our SAF commandos i think...

They were not really your normal commandos, they were our SOF, or SpecOps forces. Till that point of time they were a secret.

We were rather fortunate in the SQ117 hijacking. The hijackers had no firearms and were mostly bluffing that they had a bomb to destroy the aircraft. Before that they also made several tactical errors by releasing pushing hostages out of the plane to seem badass, which gave the SOF intelligence on the details on the number of hijackers and what they had. Additionally, appropriate media control was established so the hijackers had no real-time information on what was going on outside the plane, and the fact that they shut all the windows rendered them pretty much dumb, deaf and blind.

The one threat they could carry out however, was the burn the plane... had they carried it out that would have possibly caused quite a lot of casualties, but in terms of actually being able to resist the SOF, storming the plane full of amateur hijackers with no real weapons was about as dangerous as shooting fish in a barrel.

All in all we were quite fortunate that the first hijacking we had to handle on our soil was done by a bunch of noobs. We might face a harder challenge next time.

Asromanista2001 SG

aiyah, when the SIA plane was hijacked, the hijackers were only armed with knives mah..........

if they got guns also.............don't say passengers will die..............even the commandos also will die lah........

Asromanista2001 SG

the best way to deal with hijackers is to knock them out............

how to do this ?

have grenades packed with the body odour of Banglas and Indians after a workout under the sun..............

toss a couple of these grenades into a bus...........a plane...............don't say hijackers lah............elephants also kana knocked out !

Arapahoe SG