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A Philippine Policeman killed 15 hong kong tourists

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I just can’t believe this has happened. A policeman named Rolando Mendoza really believes that he can claim his job back by hostaging foreigners – tourists who are innocent and are supposed to fly back home the next day.

This is such a big tragedy. And what’s more is that it is done by someone who should have justice and the country’s righteousness at heart. The outcome of this incident is really not something that would be celebrated in the next few days.

My sincere condolences to the relatives and loved ones of the people who were murdered. I cannot imagine the extent of their grief over this abhorrently tragic incident. I can’t imagine having one of my loved ones in there. Incidents like these push us to ask God “Why?”

And indeed it’s also a question that has lingered in my mind for quite some time now. Who are those people in that bus? Did they deserve to die? Why did you allow this, God? And right now all I’ll be doing is to pray and try to listen and know God more as to why these things happen in our world.

As the Word of God says – the heart of man is bent on evil. And so we see the consequences of our human nature at work in this incident today between a philippine policeman holding several chinese toursists as hostage in a bus.

My heart and prayer goes out to their loved ones.

  • VinoValdes

    We may not know why this tragedy happened to them but I am sure that God’s love for all of us is still the same and every event in our lives no matter how we look at it has a good purpose. It is true that the heart of man is bent on evil and our human actions had allowed these to happen but not God because He is nothing but pure love. 😀

  • I just blogged about this too. Indeed it was sad but if there’s anything good to come out from this incident, it is the assurance that God can bring good out of evil and he often works best through adversity.

  • this just so sad. let's just hope and pray more for the betterment of the country. God Bless the Philippines 🙂

  • He did this tragedy because the government didn't gave the benefits that he must have. He did his appeal but no one answers his call.

    I research about this Capt. Rolando Mendoza and I learned that he was one of the great philippine outstanding policeman.

    He wanted to clear his name but I guess he did it the wrong way by putting the law on his own hand.

    Before 3 pm, the hongkong tourists was calm inside the bus because Mendoza stated to them what was his real purpose but the government authorities don't care about the issue and just ignore what Mendoza claimed.

    Another thing is that, the SWAT done nothing during the time that he stand out on the step door of the bus. If they shoot Mendoza (on his shoulders at the same time) on that time moment, the hostages won't get hurt because he can't pull the trigger anymore.

    Many people says, it was the fault of the SWAT operation and also the fault of the government authorities who just ignore Mendoza's demand.