Three years ago, I was bedspacing somewhere in Ortigas. I woke up one morning and walked to the carinderia next door for breakfast. To my surprise, jeepneys were plying the street, their loudness incongruous with the relatively quiet neighbourhood which saw mostly pedestrians and lost vehicles. Someone commented that they had been rerouted. When I turned my attention to the television sitting above the trays of cold hotdogs and galunggong , I learned that just a few blocks down at the Ultra, something had happened.
Three years later, survivors and relatives of victims of the Wowowee stampede remembered the incident with candles and prayers at the gates where 73 people were crushed to death.
Today, the Inquirer ran a story on the anniversary, noting that the Pasig RTC has dismissed the charges against the ABS-CBN top brass. ABS-CBN News Online meantime had no mention about the anniversary but did have some pictures of Willie Revillame and the Wowowee gang cavorting in Dubai on their first leg of a world tour. Very classy.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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