BY AUBREY MAKILAN Posted 12:25 p.m. March 3, 2006 Members of the legal profession conquered Edsa Shrine on March 3, less than an hour before the president lifted the state of emergency at 11:30 a.m. The lawyers and law students, led by the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), marched from the IBP grounds to…
Day: March 3, 2006
Palace Lifts State of Emergency
BY BULATLAT Posted 12:05 p.m. March 3, 2006 President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo lifted the state of emergency March 3, a week after she declared it supposedly to quash an alleged coup plot. The lifting was made after her advisers assured her that the coup threat had eased. The defense, justice, and police chiefs said on March…