PHOTO ESSAY
Standoff Grips Marine
Headquarters
PHOTOS BY AUBREY SC MAKILAN
TEXT BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Bulatlat
The military top
brass announced Brig. Gen. Renato Miranda’s relief as Marine commandant
at around mid-afternoon Feb. 26, saying he had voluntarily asked to be
removed from his position for unknown reasons.
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But Col. Ariel Querubin, who had
earlier admitted planning to join the anti-administration
protests last Friday, said Miranda had been unjustly relieved.
He had earlier arrived at the Marine headquarters with a group
of some 50 civilian supporters and called on fellow Marines and
other civilians to support him. |
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around 5 p.m., Querubin and Lt. Col. Archie Segumalian marched
to the office of new Marine commandant Brig. Gen. Nelson Allaga.
By then hundreds of Marines had arrived at Fort Bonifacio
escorted by three armed vehicles. |
“We are just showing
that we feel bad about the relief of our commandant,” Segumalian told
reporters. “We want clean elections.” When asked by reporters what they
are fighting for, He replied, “This is just for the Marines, we are not
fighting for anything else.”
By
early evening, the number of civilians inside and outside Fort Bonifacio
had grown to include former Vice President Teofisto Guingona Jr., former
President Corazon Aquino, Sens. Rodolfo Biazon and Panfilo Lacson, the
so-called “Hyatt 10, and all other civil society and militant
organizations.” Guingona and Aquino prayed and called on the people to
support the Marines.
The crisis was
officially announced to have been “resolved” at past 10 p.m.
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