President Arroyo on Saturday has approved a P1 million reward for the capture of a fugitive military officer involved in Thursday’s failed rebellion in Makati City.
According to information sent by the Philippine National Police (PNP) public information office Mrs. Arroyo approved the recommendation of PNP chief
Director General Avelino Razon Jr. for the offer of P1 million for information that will lead to the arrest of Marine Capt. Nicanor Faeldon.
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.
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Thursday morning, the Makati City hall premises were swarming with military personnel. Aside from the usual security escorts of the Magdalo officers, there were those from Camp Capinpin in Tanay who brought down Brig. Gen. Danny Lim, who was to testify on the agreement forged between Malacañang’s representatives and the Oakwood mutineers in July 2003.
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 finger-printed and told to undergo drug test. Our lawyers were not allowed to enter the camp. It’s a good thing the Abs-cBN assisted us. We were told to just give nothing more than our name and information on our ID.
Treating us like common criminals was simply condemnable.
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…
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 were bound behind their backs.
Two Magdalo soldiers–Armand Pontejos and Francisco Bose–were reported missing.
Authorities have banned journalists from taking footage inside the hotel.
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.…
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 hotel lobby.
Trillanes and Lim, who proceeded to the hotel after walking out of this morning’s court hearing on the “Oakwood Mutiny,” said they wanted to avoid bloodshed.
“You have been witnesses and victims of the kind of ruthlessness that this administration has been giving to the people,” Trillanes told a press conference. “We’re going out for the sake of the safety of everybody. We cannot live with our conscience if some of you would get killed or hurt in the crossfire.”
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…
Photos I took from this morning’s march from the Makati courthouse to the Manila Peninsula Hotel:
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…