{"id":211840,"date":"2019-04-29T00:26:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T04:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=211840"},"modified":"2019-04-29T00:26:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T04:26:21","slug":"dfa-chief-begs-filipinos-in-tripoli-to-evacuate-amidst-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/29\/dfa-chief-begs-filipinos-in-tripoli-to-evacuate-amidst-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA chief \u2018begs\u2019 Filipinos in Tripoli to evacuate amidst violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Filipino working for an oil and gas services provider becomes our second casualty in Libya after he was wounded while his Sudanese coworker was killed when a mortar round fell on their compound in the outskirts of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tripoli?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tripoli<\/a> on Tuesday morning. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhinLibya?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PhinLibya<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teddyboylocsin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@teddyboylocsin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DFAPHL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DFAPHL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mq6CmjDtOA\">pic.twitter.com\/mq6CmjDtOA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elmer G Cato (@elmer_cato) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elmer_cato\/status\/1120863984926842880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Locsin, Jr. \u2018begged\u2019 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Libya for evacuation in the midst of the escalating violence in the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Please go to the embassy, I beg you. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LDQJTi2m2Q\">https:\/\/t.co\/LDQJTi2m2Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teddyboylocsin\/status\/1122516613415051264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease go to the Embassy. I beg you,\u201d these were Locsin\u2019s words in a tweet on late Sunday, April 28, following the tweet of Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires Elmer G. Cato.<\/p>\n<p>Cato, who regularly tweets the repatriation of Filipinos in the area, appealed to the 60 more who are working at the Ali Omar Ashkr Hospital in Esbea. He also called on their dependents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe area is no longer safe. Please don\u2019t want more artillery rounds to fall. Please move to the Embassy now,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>As per Cato\u2019s latest update, 13 more Filipinos were repatriated by their employer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis brings to 32 the number of Filipinos repatriated from Tripoli since fighting began on 4 April,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine Embassy in Libya earlier stated that the Filipino population in the north African country is more than 1000, and it is \u201cdoubling its efforts to convince\u201d these <em>kababayans<\/em> who are still in the Libyan capital of Tripoli.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate tweet, Locsin responded to a netizen who said that some Filipinos refuse the government\u2019s offer because \u201ctheir job is at stake. At least that\u2019s what they always claim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) chief wrote back, \u201cIt\u2019s their choice and government\u2019s duty to come in when they want it to come in even at the last minute with bullets flying. It\u2019s a job not a mission. Or else don\u2019t pay taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aside from DFA\u2019s efforts to aid Filipinos, Cato also said that the Philippines is extending help to Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe briefed our ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) brothers on the situation in Tripoli and discussed how the Philippines can assist Thai nationals who may want to leave Libya,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Cato said that the Philippine Embassy in Libya is the only Southeast Asian mission with diplomats on the ground in Tripoli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Filipino working for an oil and gas services provider becomes our second casualty in Libya after he was wounded &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":211848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211849,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211840\/revisions\/211849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}