hostage-taking in Manila – marichulambino.com

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Hostage-taker’s last, live audio interview minutes before he shot hostages, Manila

i know that many people, especially, our Chinese brothers and sisters are still grieving.

Murder committed anywhere should be met with justice. This audio recording may help in that effort. Our condolences to the bereaved. Hopefully, this recording will help in the gathering of evidence to exact accountability.

This is the live audio interview of hostage-taker Rolando Mendoza minutes and seconds before he started shooting and killing the hostages, conducted by RMN (Radio Mo Nationwide, or Your Nationwide Radio), or rather, a news report of another agency with embedded RMN recording. I authenticated this by comparing it with the transcript of the interview of hostage-taker Rolando Mendoza by RMN, which it submitted to the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster sa Pilipinas (KBP, Broadcasters’ Guild of the Philippines) this week, as published in newspapers today. They’re the same (the transcript as submitted to KBP and this audio recording) except that the radio interview doesn’t contain the “Erwin” lines or dialog. The audio interview however is infinitely “more alive” or vivid than the transcript and should be listened to; and (just my opinion) should have been submitted together with the transcript. The transcript doesn’t capture at all the agitation, blind rage, uncontrollability, volatility, and desperation, of the hostage-taker. This occurs at running time 4:20 of the upload. You’ll have to listen to this to be able to see, in your mind, what happened inside the bus that Monday evening. You could almost feel the blood rushing to the hostage-taker’s head from this audio recording. (uploaded by myjirr in YouTube, posted here non-commercially, as part of the review above, and for academic purposes)

The morning show astrologer said the lucky color of the day was magenta or red violet. Perfect! It goes well withbits of soil on scraped skin; will be color-coordinated today. This was from two days ago; i did not post about it, and then had a miscommunication about what could not be pressed. i shouldn’t have to talk about everything. (hematomas and bruises on limbs on certain days of the month are normal for me; if on limbs, normal; if not on limbs but on the face – call the police). This one however occurred when the skin came in contact with the ground, involuntarily. this happens sometimes when the path is muddy and you decide to run on rocks, if the rocks are of a smaller width than your feet, they will roll when the feet land on them, and then you will find some particles of the ground mixing with the surface of the knee; blabber-blabber. Lots of admissions yesterday on the hostage-taking crisis: “hindi ko sya pinaaresto” (“i did not order his arrest (the hostage-taker’s brother),” said Manila Mayor Lim of Dirty Harry fame; “ang sabi ko lang (“what i said was”), “dalhin na yan sa presinto” (rough translation: “bring him to the police station,” or, “haul him to the police station,” or, “roll him down until he gets to the police station.”) o sige, kayo mag-translate, baka kung ano pa masabi ko. (okay, why don’t you translate it, be right back). Happy weekend!