You may have heard about the 8 Hong Kong tourists killed in the Phillipines when a fired police officer took over a tourist bus – the official explanation was he wanted his job back.
After a marksman killed him with a single gunshot, the poorly trained “SWAT” team opened up on the bus full of hostages.
The Phillipines have decades of problems with Muslim separatists fighting the government forces in Mindanao.
Here is a profile of the hostage taker:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20100823-288385/Who-is-this-hostage-taking-cop
The last paragraph mentions after he was charged, they considered reassigning him to the Muslim part of the country. Punishment or going home?
Muslims in the Philippines, pretty much as everywhere else a minaret ever is built over the centuries, have been killing various and sundry “Kufr” as suited their needs for God’s brownie points and, of course, for ethereal virgins. Muslim population concentrations in the southern Philippines have been at it hammer and tong at least since the Moro uprisings in 1899. I’d trust them as far as I could spit a shit-house rat. Wonder why.