My cousin-in-law, Ramon Sunico, posted a note in Facebook about Filipino tourists who were hacked to death in Beijing in 2005. Please note that I double checked the facts mentioned before reposting the Facebook note here. Here are two relevant links you might want to see before reading the rest.
American killed, another wounded in Beijing knife attack (August 9, 2008):
The last known fatal knife attack against foreigners occurred on April 19, 2005, when a man ran amok near the Mao Zedong Mausoleum in Tiananmen Square, stabbing to death an oil executive and his daughter from the Philippines, Emmanuel Madrigal and Regina Mia…
Human rights in China (September 2005 report):
Wang Gongzuo, a 25-year-old man from Jiangsu, was sentenced to death on September 29 after the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court found him guilty of killing a retired Filipino oil company executive and his teenage daughter in Tiananmen Square in April 2005. The victims, Emmanuel Madrigal and Regina Mia, were visiting Beijing on a package tour. The motivation for the attack, undertaken in broad daylight, is not known, but according to a report posted on the Court’s internal website, Wang, a farmer from Jiangsu Province, attacked his victims “to vent his anger against society.” Wang waived his right to appeal after the sentencing. Four Filipino diplomats attended the trial.
The text of the note is reproduced in toto. It is meant as food for thought and not to cause more agitation.
by Ramón Sunico on Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:57am I got this from an e-mail of a friend who works as a wordsmith for an NGO down south. It compares two horrible crimes, one against Filipino tourists in Beijing and the other more recent one, against Chinese tourists in Manila as well their respective governments’ response to the crimes against their citizens. You decide which is the better system. “The known facts are these: On August 19, 2005, Emmanuel Madrigal, a Manila-based Filipino executive of the multinational Shell, was visiting Beijing on vacation with his wife Vivian, his daugher Regina Mia, and two younger daughters. That day, they rode a tourist bus to Tiananmen Square, the heart of the capitol. “Upon arriving at the square, Emmanuel Madrigal was the first to descend from the bus, followed by Vivian and Regina Mia. A Chinese man wielding a scythe–in some reports it was described as a sword–suddenly appeared out of nowhere and hacked Emmanuel across his torso. He died on the spot. The man also attacked and seriously wounded Vivian. He then slashed at and killed Regina Mia. By this time, bystanders were trying to subdue the man, and Vivian shouted to her two other daughters to get away and save themselves. Somehow the girls made their way back to the hotel. Vivian was brought to a Beijing hospital, where she died several days later of her injuries. “An Associated Press report still circulating on the internet states that the killer was Wang Gongzuo, 25, a farmer from eastern China’s Jiangsu province. He was sentenced to death for the murder of the Madrigals and executed a few weeks later, in September. The AP report states: ‘Wang’s motive for killing the two is unclear. After the incident occurred the Beijing Morning Post reported that he had wanted to ‘affect society using extreme actions,’ but didn’t elaborate.” “Reflect on the parallels. A family of vacationers on a tourist bus: the Leungs and the Madrigals. A killer out to “affect society using extreme actions”: Mendoza and Wang. A massacre in a public place of symbolic significance: The Quirino grandstand, where the presidential inauguration had been held just weeks before, and site of the civil society protests against the Marcos regime; and Tiananmen Square, since ancient times the symbol of the centralized power of the Chinese state, and site of the 1991 civil protests against the government. “In both incidents, the state failed miserably in protecting innocent tourists. “And there the parallels end. “President Aquino has apologized to the families of Mendoza’s victims and conveyed his sorrow to the people of Hongkong, Chief Executive Donald Tsang, and Ambassador Lin Jian Chao. The Philippine National Police acknowledge that they botched matters beyond comprehension. Philippine legislators, ahead of their Hongkong counterparts, called for a full investigation. Philippine media organizations are looking to their own culpability in the affair. And masses of ordinary Filipinos, on TV, radio, print, and the Internet, are expressing collective horror, remorse and pity over the terrible fate of the innocent tourists, and bow their heads in shame before the Hong Kong people’s sorrow and anger. “That is how it should be, that is only right. But. “To this day, five years after it happened, there is no public record of any Chinese official acknowledging the tourist killings in Tiananmen Square and apologizing to the Madrigals, much less the Filipino people, for the murder of Emmanuel, Regina Mia and Vivian. Not a single expression of regret that the Chinese police failed in their duty to protect the lives of innocent tourists in the very heart of Beijing, in the symbolic center of a state that prides itself most of all for its ability to control and contain disorder. There was a total blackout on the part of the Chinese press, and, according to another news report, government censors quickly blocked many internet sites where Chinese users had begun to post comments about the killing. So we will likely never know what ordinary Chinese citizens had to say about about the incident. Maybe some of them were actually sorry for what happened. “The closest thing to expressed regret was in fact the final reported action of the killer Wang, who waived his right to appeal the sentence of execution, and got a bullet in the back of his head. “To add to the horror, it would appear that the Arroyo administration was complicit in the silence. No public statement was ever made by the Philippine government regarding the incident. Unlike in Hongkong, no flags were flown at half-mast in Manila, and no three-minute silence was observed to mark the deaths of the innocent Filipino tourists. No demand has ever been made by any Filipino official for an apology, and for an accounting. “A full investigation of the Quirino Grandstand killing is ongoing. But what of that other killing, also in August, five years ago in Tiananmen Square?”
A friend’s comparison of two public crimes and the hypocrisies inherent in Realpolitik
The above note was reposted with prior written permission.
This article would have been an interesting read for the haters in China, as a little something to get them off their moral high horse.
But that’d probably just fan the flames. I don’t really know – people who make angry racist rants on the net probably aren’t going to listen to reason.
In both tragedies, authorities failed to prevent the incident from happening. However, in the Quirino Grandstand tragedy, our authorities had a chance to save the lives of those on the bus.
sad.
1. False analogy – as mentioned above, one was a hostage situation, while the other was quite literally an attack. Unless you’re talking about the big picture, ie that both governments fail to do something for the poorest of the poor and the mentally unstable, they are nothing alike.
2. Everyone knows of china’s predilection for depriving information both internal and external to citizens and other countries. I’m not saying that this is your point, but that doesn’t excuse the Philippine government of it’s incompetence. This isn’t a situation where we can say ‘look at the pot calling the kettle black’
3. The reactions and the openness of Filipinos in the aftermath vis-a-vis china’s shouldn’t be something to be proud of, either. That’s taking credit for something we’re already supposed to do. It doesn’t make us better, it just makes us average.
And your-your-your is addressed to…?? The source of the note is already indicated.
Probably to you and your cousin and to anyone else sharing the same opinion. Of course, I’m only assuming you share that opinion, but since you reposted his note, I’d say that was a reasonable assumption
Probably? You’re not sure?
And, by the way, wrong assumption. And if you had really read the entry, you would have understood that my cousin-in-law didn’t even write the thing. It says right there: “I got this from an e-mail of a friend who works as a wordsmith for an NGO down south. It compares two horrible crimes, one against Filipino tourists in Beijing and the other more recent one, against Chinese tourists in Manila as well their respective governments’ response to the crimes against their citizens. You decide which is the better system.”
That doesn’t look like there’s an opinion there either way. Which just goes to show that you had already formed a bias before you read the entire entry. In fact, you had already decided what it was about before you read it. And that’s the problem with the world — no one wants to listen and understand. It’s more fashionable to be angry.
saying “you decide which is the better system” doesn’t automatically mean there’s no implied slight, much in the same way that despite Fox News claim to be “fair and balanced”, they aren’t.
the fact of the matter is, the writer of that essay had a point to make, and he/she decided to make it passive-aggressively. just because it’s not directly stated doesn’t mean it’s not there, and anyone with a 5th-grade level of reading comprehension can read between the oh so very clear lines.
and your cousin-in-law spreading it, also means he shares that opinion. in the same way you posting it means that you share that opinion as well, even if only a little bit. otherwise, you would have posted your own rebuttal against it.
but trying to get back to the point, which you oh so very cleverly tried to deviate from, the two cases aren’t similar at all. and it is disingenuous of the writer, your cousin, and yourself, to say otherwise.
i’m all for being proud of our country when it deserves it. but come on, having 2 people murdered 5 years ago by a Chinese national doesn’t excuse our performance, and just because they’re reacting the way they’re reacting now (probably because of all the world scrutiny it has created), doesn’t mean it’s something to be proud of either.
“i’m all for being proud of our country when it deserves it. but come on, having 2 people murdered 5 years ago by a Chinese national doesn’t excuse our performance”
David – you speak your own bias on the article when you take it that butchery of Filipino tourists by a Chinese national is a reason to excuse the PNP performance.
This is an excellent analogy of tragedies that happened in both countries. They only differ in the number of casualties. And the public reacted most to greater fatalities.
There are 2 things needed in the Philippines.
1. Restore death penalty.
2. The lives of innocents should not be put at risks just for a life of the perpetrator who already crossed the line. The recent tragedy showed a very costly mistake of issuing the order late by the police director passed a reasonable period of time.
You’re wrong, Dodong. It has already been proven my a multitude of studies that the death penalty doesn’t work.
You can ask Sassy.
I still have to see a data that categorically and factually claim that death penalty doesn’t work nor the data that claims it deters heinous crimes. Perhaps, Isma can care to provide us some links.
I can say it is a deterrent if it’s referring to the same criminal who has committed the heinous crime and who was sentenced with the capital punishment. Actually, life-sentence without parole is more inhuman than death penalty, IMO.
I SOMEHOW agree to this note… except for this part, “In both incidents, the state failed miserably in protecting innocent tourists.” The 2 incidents are, in a way, not the same. Sure the victims were both innocent tourists on the tourist bus. However, the attacks were different. Based on the post, it was a sudden attack. Wang came out of nowhere and attacked. Police did not have the chance to defend and save the lives of the victims. While in Mendoza’s case, the authorities had 12 hours to possibly save the lives of the hostages. I guess 12 hours wasn’t enough.
It is sad that I did not know about the Madrigal’s case. Social networking wasn’t a hit back then yet. No FB, no Twitter, and if there were, I think we all know that these sites are banned in Mainland China. My point is, maybe the apologies and sympathy from the people of China did not reach us. If they did not apologize, why did the Arroyo government did not demand for it? Why did they keep mum about the case? They might have been scared that it would tarnish the relationship they were trying to build with China for the ZTE deal.
I’m 100% agggrrreee with what Hazel li said..The incident happened in manila was sudden attack…And the most worst decision they made is that,,,they allow the media to cover it and show their big failure to the whole world…I’m a Filipino and i’m so sad about what happened to this innocent tourist who lost their lives during the incident…Our gov’t never consider the what if situation….Where have their mind goes on that hour…Damaged done and the right thing to do is to express our whole hearted condolences and symphaty with this family who lost their love ones….And the gov’t of H.K has the right to investegate this case,thats how they love their people and community…We,Filipinos should learn from them…We need to love our people and country for us to experience the real blessings of GOD…
Regarding the case of Madrigal I have nothing to say with this coz have’nt heard about it in 2005…And think this is nothing to do with the present situation that happened in the Philippines few days ago…
Lets do things at the right time and pray for the healing be upon H.K people and their gov’t and hope God will intervene in our present situation…Lets unite our heart in prayer for the reconcilliation of many….God bless us all..
My feeling is that this murder of this Madrigal was an assassination.
It has something to do with OIL Money, politics, contracts, corruption and selling of souls.
My intuition is that this has the blessing of the GMA government if not GMA herself.
My intuition further tells me that this unfortunate event was deliberately buried from mainstream media as it has something to do with treason.
Let us not do fault finding here especially if the case is such that money is the real culprit.
By doing this, we are triggering more pain to come out and more wound to be inflicted when we should be starting a healing process.
The culprit here is not the hostage takers, it is us who are not aware of our surroundings and not learning enough to see through the sublime message.
We should start the process of healing now or we will be caught in this trap designed to keep us in fear so that those who eats our fears may win against the trauma inflicted in our spirituality.
Now, that’s an interesting take on the incident. Would you know something about the personal/business background of the Madrigal to come up with that theory?
Are we into conspiracy theories now?
@ Francis Tanseco
My intuition is telling me that you’ve just been kicked out from a psychiatric institution for claiming that all of the patients there are just victims of conspiracy.
It’s my intuition.
But the Filipino deaths weren’t in youtube!
Therefore, they never happened!
Naku, the PR arm of PNoy is onto full swing trying to divert the real issues of the bungled “major, major” fiasco that hit his administration.
First of all, the Madrigals were attacked by a single deranged chinese on APRIL 19, 2005. Just the date being all wrong meant that whoever did the draft of the PR material FAILED again to check their facts (parang si Colomo at si Carandang ba? Hahahahahahaha).
Second, there was NO news blackout as attested by the news report that came out in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on April 22, 2005, provided by the DFA
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/tak2001jp/20050516
Third, the DFA was immediately informed of the incident and there was clear protocol followed.
Fourth, the assailant was sentenced to death on Sept 29, 2005 – just five months after the incident. Meaning, the chinese government was intent on pursuing the case to the end – and swiftly.
Fifth, there was no public outcry in this incident because it cannot be prevented given that the assailant was deranged – and everything happened so fast. Very unlike the Quirino Grandstand fiasco that was televised worldwide and dragged on for 11 hours – and COULD have been prevented.
I can go on and on with this discourse. The bottomline is that the PR arm of PNoy is working overdrive to deflect all the negative publicity. And this is what gets my goat. Why can’t they just come clean and accept they had lapses and failure of great magnitude? Rather than come out with these half truths to distort the facts?
Hay naku … kaya nga di umaasenso ang Pilipinas eh.
So you’re saying that the person who wrote the original email is a paid hatchet man of Malacañang? That’s quite an accusation. I hope you can prove it. As always, easy to accuse but hard to prove.
Though in both cases there had been unexpected assault against tourists, the two incidents are not completely comparable, for the Quirino grandstand hostage was something that could have been prevented.
The Philippine government was given time( alot of hours) to at least think over, plan out of necessary steps in order to put resolution to the crisis . However, it is very apparent that wrong stupid decisions were executed and complete mismanagement was exhibited as the crisis was further aggravated.
I believe it was really out of Mendoza’s plan to kill anyone. It was mentioned that he was very nice initially and just resorted to hostaging as a way of getting attention and being heard. But maybe after waiting for dragging long-hours inside the bus, seeing his family being harassed, and the mismanagement of the entire crisis, he probably just broke down, turned insane and ran amok.
Another thing, I don’t see the point/value of pointing and recalling the death of the Filipino tourists. It doesn’t have the appeal to serve as a good/intelligent way to excuse ourselves from the brunt of the Chinese. We should be decisive enough to admit where we have gone wrong, and bear the consequences. I find it foolish to throw and recount another persons mistake so as to redeem ourselves from the mistakes we have done.
Just as when Manny Pacquiao or Charice hits the international scene and do something completely spectacular, we then feel such high sense of exhilaration, solidarity and strong sense of belongingness, the hostage crisis (though negative) should also be considered as something reflective of our community. The tragic ending of hostage crisis was more than isolated case but a reflection not only of our government but what society, as a whole, we have and what we value.
Ever heard of Stockholm’s syndrome? Where the suspects shows a little kindness to his victim to create an impression that he has no bad intention.
If it was really out of his plan, he would have brought a FAKE armalite. He would have emulated Jun Ducat’s style of having fakes or antiques with him rather than the real deal.
Besides, with Hong Kong being just a few hours away, how could not they at least tried to intervene? This isn’t exclusively internal politics like ZTE especially that the victims are mostly people not involved at all. One Chinese said that if they were Americans, they would have been saved. Indeed, true. Coz knowing how the US intervenes so much, they would have done so to protect their citizens, doesn’t matter if the flight is 12 hrs to the Philippines. But the Hong Kong government? They just watch their citizens being hostaged and eventually killed! They’re also at fault. Not just the Philippines.
Both were tragic and rather painful event especially to those who were directly affected, to the family of the victims and even to the family of the assailants especially that both of them were also dead and died in a very humiliating circumstances. All were in a very difficult and painful retrospect.
I have painfully shared my thoughts about our incident and how furious I was with the way it ended.
My take on this will just be on my own . . my thoughts will be just like Mr. Jackie Chan. . you could be right that this could fan bigger flames. . . this does not make the score even as some may suggest in doing some comparative analyzes. There’s nothing wrong with that but keep in mind this is a very sensitive issue. . lives were taken as in “was taken”. . there is no more painful than losing a love one that way. .
Those of you who can make yourselves rise above this situation like Mr. Chan do your share of promoting peace, self restraint and compassion.
Evil is sowing hatred and have used this incidents to further his cause and he might succeed.
he has some point in here…but he failed to compare the very details of the incident..
1. Tiananmen Square incident, as what some will other say “has the element of surprise”. no one had control and even know that i would happen. in contrary, the Quirino Massacre was the complete opposite. it was a hostage-situation.., not a surprise attack on the foreigners. we all know that in one way or another that this would happen. it could have been prevented if they did have the right judgement and right equipments.
2. What happen in China, stays in China…thats the one and only thing that differs from the incident here in the country. They had it in their hand, no media reports, or i could say, little media reports,.. Its a total control of what happened.. and on the other side of the ring, we have the Quirino incident, was there any news blackout? the answer is clearly NO! was there a total control of the media coverage? NO! was there control over the crime scene? NO!! it wouldn’t reach this far if they’ve done the right thing..
the nature of the incident differs vastly from one another, although it involves two country and deaths of its countrymen on foreign lands..
Police Force
Priding itself for their ability to “control” and “contain” disorder – it is very valid for the Chinese police to claim this; even after the 05 incident. They can’t really control the disorder (in this case the Chinese man’s intentions/actions) before it happened. This man was a farmer, it may not have looked conspicous having the scythe with him. In contrast, the incident in ’10 is similar and dissimilar. The dismissed police officer has a rifle with him, which does not look “odd” in the Philippines. This is where the similarity ends. The PNP had time to reduce the risk to the people in the bus — they had time to contain the disorder (holding the passengers hostage).
With the above said, it isn’t necessary for the Chines police issue an apology; that’s not to say shouldn’t. It could some sort of concern/regret on their end. The PNP on the other hand should issue an apology to the victim’s families; which they did. Especially with the way they botched the rescue attempt, publicly televised at that.
The abilities/capabilities of the police force, or in the case of the recent event, incapabilities of the police force is linked to the governemnt. The government has the control over the training, equipment and leadership of the police force. The botched rescue by the [undertrained, underequipped, and under-led PNP SWAT team] (this part is admitted by the PNP) is a direct reflection of the government. Aquino has just recently taken office, but the lack of training, equipment and leadership from the previous administration does still reflect on Aquino’s administration.
Media
The Philippine media seems to take the “transparency” promise by Aquino too far, though it has been this way even before Aquino took office. The media can inform the public of the bus passengers being held captive WITHOUT being right there NEXT to the SWAT snipers. They can give the news from a farther and safer distance than where they were. It didn’t happen, but if any of the media members had been shot they would blame the PNP for not providing them security. The media is adding liability without due necessity.
Bottom line is that it is important for them to give the news to the public, but it is not necessary for them to be broadcasting so close to the action that they might as well have participated in the rescue [attempt]
The Chinese media in contrast was blacked out and could not report about the incident as it was happening. On the flip side of the coin, their media did not dig deep enough to find out the who/what/why fo the incident. On the same token, Chinese laws might be holding them back from digging deeper.
I, among others, am absolutely appalled that the PNP SWAT is unfit to deal with this type of incidents. As well as with the government for not having the foresight to see fit for the SWAT team to be unfit to deal with such incidents. Even more so with the Philipine media’s actions during the entire incident.
The incident was the manifestation of a systemic failure of our police that was hardly addressed by previous generation of administrations and not just the current one.
This blaming game is so absurd. Even more pathetic is to blame previous administrations. People are having amnesia big time. “Systematic failure of our police” due to previous administration is a crap. It boils down to who is in charge, in short command responsibility and execution.
Let us go back to history in November, 2003. Former ATO chief Panfilo Villaruel an air force reservist and Navy Lt Catchiliar took over the tower at the international airport that could have put untold lives at risk due to heavy air traffic. Shortly, President Arroyo issued a decisive order to Superintendent Andres Caro. In just 2 hours after the order was given, the two were killed.
I am never a fan of Arroyo but the current President Aquino is leaving too much room for blunder having Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim take the ground decision. Alfredo Lim was a decorated police officer and former NBI chief, so Aquino trusted him so well. To everyones dismay both officers MPD Director Magtibay and Mayor Lim are pointing fingers to each other. They failed miserably.
Hmm… 2 wrongs doesn’t make a right. Stop bringing this up and instead convince the chinks not to fire the nannies. Oh wtf who gives a shit, go fire them!! let’s see what happens to hong kong when the Professionals who hire a Filipino maid have to stay at home to take care of their Family. BRAIN DRAIN!! bang instant backfire.
Should we also hate ALL the Chinese people then for not helping the Filipino victims in Beijing? Sure, the element of surprise was there when he stabbed Emmanuel. But the farmer was also able to stab Regina Mia and Vivian. What were the people around the area doing at that time? Merely looking at the family as they were being attacked by the offender?
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Actually, i’m just kidding. I know Filipinos whom haters now call people “without class” and “slaves” don’t think that way.
These horrible events already happened and we cannot do anything to get the lives lost in those incidents back. What can make the difference is how we correct the mistakes in the past and how we as people react. It seems to me that no matter how sorry we (i’m talking about the common Filipinos who doesnt have anything to do with it) feel for what had happened, and how we humble ourselves knowing how embarrassing the incident was for us, it seems it doesn’t suffice and we, collectively as people of the Philippines, are still subject of character attacks online. Or maybe not just online, as Sen. Jinggoy had experienced. I’m really saddened by the fact that some insensitive Filipino students were caught taking pictures near the Hong Thai tourist bus, but I hope the Chinese people would be rational enough to accept the fact they were just a few among 90M Filipinos. Who knows, a fellow Filipino might be the one to expose those facebook profile photos because that is also unacceptable to us as much as it is to them. We (the people) are also not at fault when the Philippine flag was placed on the coffin of the offender. It’s just unfortunate that local officials didn’t check early on. We should not also question those who went to his funeral – the funeral march is a Filipino tradition attended by relatives and friends. Being a democratic country, we cannot restrict people from paying last respect to the dead.
We understand that the Chinese people, especially those in HK, are still mourning for the unnecessary loss of lives in that incident. It was a big, big failure. I do pray that the healing process they are going through will be over soon. And I also hope as soon as it’s over that they would stop “pointing the gun and pressing the trigger at the wrong subjects”.
As for our government, i’m really disappointed by how they handled that incident – and that goes to the people in Malacañan, the crisis committee members, and the SWAT team. And I’m also disappointed with the media for the lack of discernment. I hope everyone from this country learned a lesson from this and that it will never repeat itself. Let’s just all wait for the result of the investigation… may the victims find justice and may their soul rest in peace.
I understand the need to dig up this incident. Sometimes I find myself saying “violence happens everywhere. This could have happened anywhere.” The point is that it happened here, and we handled it badly. The only way to move forward and to correct our mistakes is to acknowledge every point where a mistake was made so we can fix it.
I’m very sorry this happened to the Madrigals. I don’t know if the Arroyo government kept it under wraps. Even if they did, it seems that the man was arrested and punished soon after, so at the very least China made sure someone was held accountable and it was done swiftly. Perhaps some of us feel there should have been more of a national effort on China’s part to express regret because the victims were Filipino and the perpetrator was Chinese. In any case, the victims got the same justice as any ordinary Chinese citizen and I’m satisfied.
The Chinese likewise got the same treatment they would have gotten if they were Filipinos. That another nation is involved highlighted the sorry states of our police, our government, our media, even our ordinary citizens. We demand so little from the people who serve us, we expect so little from them. If the bus were full of Filipinos, we would have been outraged but maybe this week we’d be talking about something else. A full investigation might still have been started, but it would be just be another one that the people involved fully expect is to forget about. Case in point: 1) the 43 health care workers are still imprisoned and have not received a fair trial, 2) the Magindanao massacre victims have yet to find justice almost one year later, 3) the government officials involved in countless scandals have yet to be brought to trial…. The list goes on and on. Maybe with China and the world watching we’ll start to hold ourselves accountable and realize we deserve a better government and better public servants.
Sorry, i meant: “A full investigation might still have been started, but it would be just be another one that the people involved fully expect US to forget about.”
When an insane person attacks suddently, randomly anyone in a crowded public place, no matter how much security you have , there is bound to be a victim in most cases. The only thing security can do is lessen the number of casualties. But in a hostage situation, the government is more or less in responsible in handling the situation. And apparently in this case, they had the time to respond but it seems they botched it.
The “facts” are not facts. The truth is that The father and one daughter died, the mother survived together with her two other daughters.
“The truth is that The father and one daughter died, the mother survived together with her two other daughters.”
Yes. And nothing in the entry says otherwise. Did you read it?
To understand this horrific event, we have to look at the perp.
What drove him to do this? Did he even know what he was doing?
It looks to me that the perp was looney tunes.
And if his nut is cracked, it’s hospital, not prison.
The original article fails to mention the very important detail that the murderer in China believed he was attacking rich Japanese tourists and instead killed a well-off Chinese Filipino family.