Thursday - November 29, 2007

Coup Attempt in the Philippines 

Another coup attempt by the military in the Philippines ends in failure.

Rebel members of the Philippines military attempted to stage a coup today, storming a luxury hotel in Manila and setting up a siege in the middle of the capital.

The drama began as several former soldiers marched away from the courthouse where they had been on trial over an earlier coup attempt in 2003, and took over the Peninsula Hotel in the Makati financial district of the capital.

Military police made no apparent effort to stop the plotters, and some even went with the rebels as they left the courthouse and occupied the hotel.They set up a command centre in a second-floor function room, posting armed guards on stairways from the lobby.

Joined by dozens of sympathisers from in and out of the military, the rebels forebade guests from leaving and started issuing demands for President Gloria Arroyo to resign.  Read more....

Author: The Machiavellian
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