Dear Heavenly Father,
We pray to you as our brothers and sisters lay in your loving arms, to please help their Family to be strong in this unfortunate tragedy due to some inconsiderable actions.
We also ask for forgiveness in your heavenly name to all the Hongkong Nationals that this Incident brought their country to mourn together with the world.
As a Filipino we feel for the shameful action of our Kababayan who hostage those innocent people.
Oh Mighty Father please help our Nation to recover from this tragedy and humiliation.
Guide us to accept and understand why this have to happened. we take this as a challenge in rebuilding our nation. And take this as a wake up call.
Guide those people we've elected into power to lead the Philippine National Police in the right path, (as what P*noy promises during his campaign) and be strong enough to face the world in regards to this matter.
Please help the victims family left behind to not think of any actions that might lead to another tragedy.
As a Nation we beg you Oh Heavenly Father for your understanding and love to our Kababayan SPO Mendoza. we pray for his soul to be in peace and forgive himself on the wrong things he made. And for his family and loved ones to be strong and accept the reality of life as the whole world condemned their dear SPO Mendoza.
Together with the world, All Mighty Father we ask for your loving hand to heal our hearts from the pain and lost that we obtained from this terrifying Nightmare.
This we ask to our Lord
AMEN
*ayidnas
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Nightmare In Luneta
Luneta Park (formerly Bagumbayan), the place where the Philippines' National Hero Dr. Jose P. Rizal's shrine is located. It's a very Historical place for Filipino. It's a place where a lot of Historical event took place. Part of Luneta Park is the Quirino Grand Stand (named after RP President, Elpidio Quirino) hosted a lot of event that makes Philippines known in the world. Like when Pope John Paul II visited the Philippines for World Youth Day (January 10-15, 1995).
And just yesterday another History happened in Luneta Park (Rizal Park), a history that will put Philippines, on a negative side.
It was an ordinary Monday morning to everyone in Manila, busy streets, (referring to bumper-to-bumper traffic). No one would ever imagined that, that ordinary day would end into a tragedy that people around the world will witness.
Report says that It was early morning when a group of (21) Hongkong Nationals, Filipino driver, Filipino Tour Guide and a Hongkong National Tour guide (boarding a tourist bus: Hong Thai Travel (Services) ) was about to go to Grand Lisboa Casino when the gun man, Dismissed Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza (January 10, 1955 - August 23, 2010 +) hijacked the tourist bus and handcuffed the driver. The Gunman was armed with a M16 rifle.
It took more than 11 hours of negotiations before it ended in one of the most Tragic (Bloody) Hostage Drama that happened in the Philippines. Leaving 10 people killed (including the gun man), 6 tourist injured, 8 tourist released without any injury including the Filipino Tour Guide (on the earlier part negotiations of this nonsense hostage drama, orchestrated by the gunman, Mendoza) and the Driver that was seen handcuffed on the steering wheel (on earlier video footages from different media outfit around the world) said to escaped during the first gun shots. (Inside the bus). And two others were injured, a teenager bystander and a media crew.
Here's the list of Victims provided to the media:
*data was taken from wikipedia (not intended for any copyright infringement)
Different reactions were posted on Social Networking sites:
This all happen due to the dismissal of the gunman from the service (PNP) in regards of misconduct for allegedly extorting P20,000 (Christian Kalaw, a chef where it was said illegal drugs was planted on his car and was forced to take it and aking him to withdraw the total amount of money he has in the ATM and was only released when a friend raised the total amount of P20 000.00, Ombudsman dismissed Mendoza and four others from duty and removing all their benefits) According to Mendoza's brother (who's also a police and was arrested due to carrying of weapon in the scene, where he is not part of the Negotiating Team, which said triggered the Gunman to kill two of his Hostages when he saw what is happening to his son and Brother on the national TV).
A tragic day to start the week.
*ayidnas
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