Value of human lives

The hostage crisis in Algeria ended up death of 37 hostages.

The situation the news were reporting indicate that most of the hostages weren't killed by the terrorists, but by the Algerian government army.

It's obvious that the purpose of the government army was just breaking down the terrorists from the beginning and their aims never included rescuing the hostages. Although it's important not to give in to terrorism, that would be unthinkable in Japan.
For example, when terrorists were moving to another place by five cars carrying the hostages in each car, the government army bombed them and the four cars of five were completely destroyed. Hard to believe!!

This reminded me of what one Chinese told me, who lived in Japan.
When he came to Japan, he was really impressed that Japan was a country which valued human lives. It felt strange to me first, but he explained some examples of how much China ignored human lives.

I think there are more countries where human lives are taken incredibly lightly.

7 Japanese people were killed in this hostage crisis in Algeria, and 3 Japanese people still remain missing.