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Pinoys rally behind cop who claimed 10,000 people died due to Yolanda

By Kim Arveen Patria
Yahoo Southeast Asia Newsroom
18 November 2013


Reuters/REUTERS - People carry a coffin with the remains of their relative, who was killed during Typhoon Haiyan, through a destroyed chapel at a cemetery during the victim's funeral in Palo November 16, 2013. Survivors began rebuilding homes destroyed by Haiyan, one of the world's most powerful typhoons, and emergency supplies flowed into ravaged Philippine islands, as the United Nations more than doubled its estimate of people made homeless to nearly two million. REUTERS/John Javellana

As the death toll from monster typhoon “Yolanda” continues to climb, Filipinos rush to the defense of a police official who was sacked after estimating 10,000 casualties.
 
An online petition posted Saturday urged President Benigno Aquino III to reinstate Gen. Elmer Soria as chief regional director of Eastern Visayas Police. The current toll is reportedly at almost 4,000 but Aquino earlier claimed it should be around 2,500.

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While conceding that Soria “may have jumped the gun” by citing unconfirmed figures, the petition insisted that firing Soria was “heavy-handed and extreme”
 
Addressing the President, the petition said, it seems Soria’s dismissal “stems from a personal vendetta against those whose views do not align with your own.”
 
Days after Soria’s estimate made headlines, Aquino said the death toll should only be around 2,000 to 2,500. As of November 16, however, the death count reached 3,681.

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Ni contrast sa kang Pinoy nga zero fatality order mao naglagot ang bosingsing

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