SOMETHING'S FISHY WITH TAIWAN CRISIS HANDLING

There is something suspicious, if not fishy, in the way the government is handling the Taiwan crisis.

First: More than two weeks after the May 9 incident, the Aquino Government has yet to present to the public the Coast Guard personnel involved in the incident.

We, the people, don’t know who they are. Even the media can’t interview them. They’re the ones who were there but we can’t get the story straight from their mouths.  

The best people who can prove that our Coast Guard personnel acted only in self-defense, as claimed by the government, are the Coast Guard guys themselves.

Not Malacanang, not Justice Sec Leila de Lima. But both don’t seem to give a damn about it. Even if the Coast Guard personnel’s testimonies can fast-track the peaceful resolution of the crisis.

Second: Up to now, the Aquino Government has not yet released the supposed video tape taken by the Coast Guard personnel which can prove they opened fire only in self-defense.

Anybody who wants to prove his or her innocence will immediately grab every opportunity to do so.  Why, then, is the government withholding the tape? Not only to us but to the Taiwanese Government as well?

MERON BANG DAPAT ITAGO, O REMEDYUHAN MUJNA?

Third: For the second time in a row, claims by Manila Economic and Cultural Office Chairman Amadeo Perez were belied by the government even if he’s the government representative in Taiwan .

Newspaper reports the other day quoted Mr. Perez as saying that Taiwan has set new conditions in handling the investigation. But De Lima later said there’s none.

Prior to this, Perez was quoted in media early in the crisis as saying that the Philippine Government has promised a joint investigation into the killing.

But Malacanang said this was not true. ANO BA ANG TUTOO?.

Unless the Aquino Government will be totally transparent, and I mean  immediately, the handling of the Taiwan crisis will never be 100 percent credible.

REGARDLESS of what  they’ll  report as the outcome.

For  the sake of our countrymen in Taiwan,, especially the OFWs, the truth had better come out once and for all. If not, somebody had better name whoever is to blame should our people be further subjected to harm and indignities in Taiwan. 30