Josefina Bajade (L), provincial welfare director and chief negotiator in a hostage-taking crisis, gestures before distributing relief goods to villagers whose livelihoods were disrupted by the crisis in San Martin, Prosperidas town in Agusan del sur province, southern Philippines December 12, 2009. Filipino bandits demanding murder charges against them be dropped freed two more hostages on Saturday but continued to hold 46 others in a mountain forest.
REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco (PHILIPPINES - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW)