Many Pinoys are in Lebanon, so the headlines is that "escape route bombed"...the government here is very worried that Pinoys won't get out...and now they are trying to figure out if they can get them out by ship.
But if you scroll down, you find this:
Ms Arroyo expressed the nation’s “indignation and outrage” over the death of two household helpers—Mary Jane Pangilinan and Michelle Tomagan—who she said were trying to escape their employers to join the evacuation of their compatriots....“Our request to our OFWs and to their loved ones here, please tell them don’t take unilateral action,” Conejos said. “If your employer refuses to release you, you must call the embassy. Don’t attempt to leave on your own, especially if in so doing you will endanger your life.” He advised them to instead contact the Philippine embassy in Beirut because labor attachés and embassy officials there were “very adept on these things” and would negotiate for their release.
The maids died after jumping out of windows....And now we read the spin.....LINK ->Labor Undersecretary for International Labor Relations Manuel Imson said, "Initial verbal reports indicate the two were cleaning windows when it happened. We're still waiting for the official police reports to tell us if they fell, jumped, or were pushed. From initial reports, they (deaths) happened in the normal course of work.".....
There were persistent reports that most Lebanese employers were preventing their Filipina domestic helpers to repatriate back to Manila....
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update: Manila Bulletin affirms at least one was killed trying to escape down bedsheets.. link2 says they are the first Philippine casualties of the war...
Ironic, isn't it, that with 30 000 Pinoys in Lebanon, the first two casualties were due to employer abuse and not Israeli Bombs?
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