The Flor Contemplacion syndrome – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

The Flor Contemplacion syndrome – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos. Public Lives By Randy David Philippine Daily Inquirer Source: inquirer.net MANY REASONABLE people do not understand why the resources of the entire Filipino nation have been mobilized to persuade China to spare the lives of the three Filipinos who were executed on Wednesday for…

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March 31, 2011

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The Flor Contemplacion syndrome – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.

Public Lives
By Randy David
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Source: inquirer.net

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MANY REASONABLE people do not understand why the resources of the entire Filipino nation have been mobilized to persuade China to spare the lives of the three Filipinos who were executed on Wednesday for the heinous crime of drug trafficking. They ask: Why are we spending precious diplomatic capital to plead for the lives of three convicted criminal offenders? Are we not being selfish in thinking only of our own nationals? Can we not also sympathize with the nameless individuals whose lives have been ruined by the drugs regularly brought into China by drug mules?

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