Philippines/Hong Kong: Migrante fears botched rescue attempt on HK hostages to backfire at OFWs.

Section: General News - Filipino workers overseas, the next sector seen to be affected by the much-publicized hostage crisis after tourism, joined mounting calls to relieve officials responsible for Monday's tragic incident.

Heads must roll for the deaths and measures should be urgently enacted to heal strained diplomatic relations. For our OFWs, what happened was a 'major, major blunder'.

"Our OFWs in Hong Kong and elsewhere should not be in any way obliged to defend what was clearly an unorganized and incompetent handling of the hostage crisis, Migrante International Chairperson Garry Martinez said.

The Migrante leader said that more than 150,000 …