【明報專訊】The Incident On 23 August 2010, former Philippine police officer Rolando Mendoza (55), armed with an M16 rifle, hijacked in Manila a tour coach with 21 Hong Kong citizens on board. Mendoza, who had been dismissed, wanted to have his job back. He shot eight hostages dead and badly injured seven others. Mendoza was eventually killed when police officers stormed the bus. Chief Executive (CE) Donald Tsang (曾蔭權) (as he then was) immediately wrote to Philippine President Benigno S Aquino III (菲律賓總統阿基諾三世) to ask that the Philippine authorities hold a thorough investigation into the tragedy. Aquino III ordered that an Incident Investigation and Review Committee be set up. Its first report, which came out in mid-September 2010, listed eight key mistakes the authorities had made. The most fatal of them was that Alfredo Siojo Lim (前馬尼拉市長林雯洛), who was then mayor of Manila, provoked Mendoza to start killing hostages by having his younger brother arrested. Aquino III has repeatedly refused to offer the victims an official apology, saying Mendoza rather than the Philippine government is to blame.
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