The rest of the interview with BS Aquino was cringe-worthy as expected. Amapour hardly got a straight answer even when she asked simple questions. When Amapour asked, “How do you manage to reassure your people?” The President responded as if he was talking to someone stupid: We have been able to demonstrate as a government and as a people collectively that we take care of each other and that the government’s initial response was reassuring to the vast majority of our people. Our ability to take care of our problems rather quickly… In one of her final questions, Amapour asked how BS Aquino would respond to people who will judge his Presidency on how his government responded to the crisis. His response seemed to trivialize the number of deaths caused by the super typhoon, which he claims is “only” about 2500. He kept emphasising that the government’s efforts to warn the public minimized the casualties and this time, did not include sinking ships: I think you can ask all the governors of the areas that have been saying that our making them aware the dangers of the typhoon enabled them to move their population from danger areas into safer areas and thereby minimizing casualties. A lot of them with the exception of Leyte province, eastern and western Samar have reported practically of one or two or even zero casualties wherein normally when we have a typhoon, we will also have ships that were travelling that would have sunk casualties in the hundreds, probably merit too much attention. So the knowledge, the geo hazard mapping, the knowledge imparted to all of them enabled them to reduce the risk inherent in all the disasters that visit us. This was how pres. abnoy answered CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour in an interview regarding victims of typhoon yolanda. Pastilan!
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 22:59:28 +0000
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