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Hours, media grit in the Manila Pen
Following are two first-person-accounts of last Thursday’s standoff. One is mine and the other is by Azhel Hachero, Malaya’s reporter covering Makati. This page requires a higher version browserFor the latest Philippine news stories and videos, visit GMANews.TV GMA news … Continue reading
Released
Thank you all for your concern. I was released 10:30 p.m. with Malaya Makati reporter Azchel Hachero, my blog trainee Jerome Layug, and more than 20 other journalists who were brought to Camp Bagong Diwa to be processed. Some were … Continue reading
This is outrageous!
Police were attempting to put plastic handcuffs on us, as though we’re criminal suspects. We refused. We were ordered to fall in a single file and made to board another police bus that will take the journalists to Bicutan.
Soldiers, civilians rounded up
Authorities have rounded up the remaining Magdalo soldiers involved in the six-hour standoff and herded them to one side of the Manila Peninsula Hotel lobby. The soldiers were ordered to strip to their shorts and lie face down; their hands … Continue reading
Trillanes, Lim, Guingona arrested
Authorities arrested Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, former vice president Teofisto Guingona and Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim at the Manila Peninsula Hotel shortly after 6 p.m. and escorted them to a National Capital Region Police Office bus waiting outside. Trillanes and … Continue reading
Trillanes, Lim to leave hotel
Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim have decided to pull out of the Manila Peninsula Hotel after troops stormed the Makati-based hotel at 5 p.m., lobbing tear gas canisters and ramming an armored personnel carrier into the … Continue reading
Taking refuge
Only 20 journalists are left at the Manila Peninsula Hotel, including myself. We are holed up in several of the hotel’s function rooms, along with with Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim, the other Magadalo officers and … Continue reading
Walkout photos
Photos I took from this morning’s march from the Makati courthouse to the Manila Peninsula Hotel:
Bracing for an assault
It’s tense here inside the Manila Peninsula Hotel. We’re staying put even after National Capital Region police chief Geary Barias ordered the evacuation of the hotel. The Makati regional trial court has reportedly cited Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim, Sen. Antonio … Continue reading
The Oakwood Agreement
Here are the details of the Oakwood Agreement posted on Sundalo: The following are the terms of the Oakwood Agreement, which was approved by the so-called Magdalo soldiers and the government represented by Gen. Roy Cimatu (Ret.): Only the five … Continue reading
