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Category: Feb ’06
Frank Chavez opened the petition he filed before the Supreme Court last Friday, on behalf of his client, Army Major Jason Laureano Aquino,with a quote from Benigno Aquino Jr.,made before Military Commission No. 2 on August 2, 1973.
Ninoy Aquino’s words: “There is something that transcends all other considerations, something that is unique in the case against me. Two years ago, on August 24, 1971 – three days after the horrible massacre in Plaza Miranda – I was accused and pronounced guilty of the same charges by the President himself, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces…With due respect to all of you, how can this Military Commission reverse the President? Even if you want to because of your sense of justice, nonetheless, under Presidential Decree No. 39, the President has the power to change or reverse your decision.
Another officer accused in the plot to oust President Arroyo in February 2006 today petitioned the Supreme Court to stop court martial proceedings against him and to order his release from detention.
Army Maj. Jason Aquino and 27 other Marine and Army officers detained at Camp Capinpin in Tanay, Rizal, are facing court martial proceedings for their alleged plan to withdraw support from Arroyo in a projected mass action at the Edsa Shrine on Feb. 24, 2006.
“THE lies that we have to say just to protect them.”
Jopay Sales related a story about her three-year-old twins, Frances Danielle and Daniel Francis, showing how the detention of her husband, Capt. Frederick Sales, has taken a toll on their family life.
A week before their graduation from nursery school last month, Frances and Daniel were in their school bus. Everybody was excited about the graduation ceremonies. The kids were looking forward to their parents going up the stage with them, especially those who would be receiving awards.
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The case of 2nd Lts. Caesar Daen and Percival Alcanar, who were unjustly accused of participating in the Oakwood mutiny and imprisoned for four years, only for the military to admit last Wednesday that their evidence is weak, shows the stupidity and inhumanity of this administration.
Last Wednesday, the military court presided by Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Legazpi which is trying the case of the Magdalo soldiers in connection with what is called the Oakwood mutiny on July 27, 2003, said it was “with a deep sense of justice” that they were dismissing charges against Daen and Alcanar because the “evidence is manifestly weak.”
May puso at konsyensa ba itong si Gen. Hermogenes Esperon, AFP chief of staff?
Lumabas na ngayon ang gusto niyang mangyari sa kanyang pag-bartolina kay Capt. Dante Langkit ng sampung buwan. At ito ay para mapilitan ang batang opisyal na mag-traidor sa kanyang mga kasamahan, lalo na kay Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim.
Sinabi noong Martes ni Danzel Langkit, kambal ni Capt. Langkit, pinasabi ni Esperon na papayagan si Dante makalaya para magkandidato kung mag-state witness siya. Ibig sabihin, idiin ni Dante ang kanyang mga kapwa akusadong opisyal sa kanilang bintang na mutinyo pag-alsa laban kay Gloria Arroyo.
by Victor Reyes
CAMP Capinpin, Tanay, Rizal – Armed Forces chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. has offered liberty to Army Capt. Dante Langkit, one of those implicated in last year’s failed coup, in exchange for turning state witness, Langkit’s twin brother claimed yesterday.
Interviewed at the sidelines of the ongoing court martial of the suspected coup plotters, Dante’s twin Danzel said Esperon made the offer through his executive assistant, Col. Daniel Lucero, last March 26.
“The executive assistant said that (offer) was from Gen. Esperon. In exchange for (Dante’s) release, he has to turn state witness against the group of Gen. (Danilo) Lim,” Danzel said.
Lim, erstwhile commander of the First Scout Ranger Regiment; and former Marine commandant Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda reportedly planned to lead their men to the Edsa Shrine on Feb. 24, 2006 where they would withdraw support from President Arroyo. The alleged plan was foiled when the AFP leadership detained Lim hours before the planned march to Edsa.
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Lawyers of the 28 military officers accused of plotting a coup against Gloria Arroyo in February 2006 walked out of the court martial hearng in Camp Capinpin in Tanay Rizal this morning after the panel dismissed their motion to defer the proceedings until the Supreme Court decides on their petition for temporary restraining order and release of the accused from detention.
Frank Chavez, lawyer for Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda and Maj. Jason Aquino, who led the walkout said he has come to a point where he has given up hope for justice from the panel. “It is a kangaroo court, “Chavez said.
It was most fitting that Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim’s petition before the Supreme Court, through his lawyer Vicente Verdadero, to stop the special general court martial convened to try him, Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda and 26 other marine and army officers for the alleged coup plot in February 2006, started with the statement:
“The fundamental rights guaranteed in the Constitution apply to all persons, including those subject to military law. It would indeed be paradoxical if military men who are called upon in times of the gravest national crises to lay down their lives in defense of peace and freedom would be the very people to be singled out for denial of the fundamental rights for which they risk their lives.”
Miranda, Lim, Col. Armando Bañez, Maj. Jose Leomar Doctolero, and Capt. William Upano, who are now detained in Camp Capinpin in Tanay, Rizal, also asked the High Court for their release. The officers have been accused of either one or two or all of the following violations of the Articles of War: mutiny, disrespect towards the president, willfully disobeying order, and conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline.
Wives, children and gandchildren of the detained Marines and Scout Rangers were at the Supreme Court yesterday to give moral support to each other when Atty Rolando Cipriano, lawyer for Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda; Atty. Vicente Verdadero, lawyer for Brig. Gen. Danny Lim, Atty. Vicente Caoile, lawyer for Col. Armando Bañez; and Atty. Dante Xenon Atienza, lawyer for Maj. Jose Leomar Doctolero and Capt. Wiliam Upano, filed the petition for certiorari, prohibition and habeas corpus in connection with the detention and court martial of the 28 military officers.
They, too, are victims of the injustice being perperated on their husbands, fathers, and grandfathers.
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