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Last month in Singapore a Filipina worker called Flor Contemplacion was blamed for the killing of two people, another worker and a young boy. The court found her guilty of the double murder , and shortly after that she was hanged in a Singapore prison . Governments all over the world had asked Singapore to [1] her for the crime , but Singapore refused and insisted on punishing her by death .

When her body was returned to the Philipines to be buried , thousands of sad , angry people poured into the streets of Manila . Most of the Filipino [2] believes that she was not really guilty of killing anyone . They say that the Singapore police are well known for being cruel and using [3] to make prisoners talk . Some people who were in jail with Flor Contemplacion said that the police beat her and didn't stop until she said she was the murderer . And a doctor who saw the bodies of the people Flor is supposed to have killed said that it looked like the work of a strong man , not that of an older woman like Flor .

Was she guilty or not? People in Singapore think she was and people in the Philipines think she wasn't . The real truth will [4] never be known , but the result of it all is that there are now great [5] problems between the two Asian countries . In an interview at his [6] in Manila , Philipines President Fidel Ramos said that he wants to [7] the Singapore government to look at the case of Flor Contemplacion again to see if she was really treated fairly . If they refuse , he is thinking of closing the Philipines embassy in Singapore , and perhaps breaking all connections with Singapore . The problem with this idea is that the Philipines is [8] and it depends on Singapore economically . The Filipino economy needs the money that people working in Singapore send home . And the Filipinos themselves need these jobs . When a plane was sent to Singapore last week to [9] any workers who wanted to return home , it returned half empty . Clearly , the workers preferred staying in a country where they are not very [10] to giving up their jobs .

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