Even if there are already relief goods to distribute to the victims of the super typhoon that struck the Philippines on Friday last week, roads are impassable to reach most of the affected areas. Therefore, some survivors resorted in looting due to lack of food and drink just to be able to survive.
There are locals and international medias who lambasted the government handling the relief operations. Some of them said that Philippines officials are incompetent, inept and slow in their actions.
Then there are also people not just in the Philippines but also in other parts of the world who look down to the survivors by posting derogatory remarks to typhoon survivors because of looting, killing and possibly rape as well according to some reports.
However, posting anything negative on Facebook and other social networking sites about the victims is now unlawful in Hongkong.
Hong Kong's Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) cited their race discrimination ordinance, which makes it unlawful for any person to publicly incite hatred or severely ridicule another person on the ground of their race.
EOC Chairperson Dr. York Chow said, the negative sentiments of Hong Kong residents towards the Philippine government in connection with its handling of the Manila bus hostage incident three years ago should not be extended to the victims of Yolanda.
Seven days after the typhoon's devastation, it left at least 2,357 people confirmed dead as of Thursday.
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