Word: honasan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even veterans of the five previous coup attempts found the latest plot to overthrow Philippine President Corazon Aquino alarming. According to army intelligence last week, Aquino was to be the target of an uprising this month led by prominent Right-Wing Politicians Gregorio Honasan, the fugitive colonel whose August mutiny nearly toppled Aquino, and Ferdinand Marcos. One crony reportedly even had a six-seater plane ready to spirit the exiled Marcos from Hawaii to Manila...
Most notable among the changes was the official cashiering of Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan from his command of special operations at a provincial fort. Honasan, the leader of the failed revolt, remained at large with as many as 2,000 renegade troops. According to press reports, Honasan has been secretly slipping in and out of Manila under the protection of military guards. Members of the business community may now be funding him, and some observers predicted he would launch a new coup attempt within a few weeks. If so, he could win support among government troops and officers, a majority...
...colonel has also been accused of being behind the assassination two weeks ago of Leandro Alejandro, 27. The much admired secretary-general of Bayan, the Philippines' largest legal left-wing coalition, Alejandro was shot down by unidentified gunmen outside Bayan headquarters. Honasan's friends deny that the renegade officer was responsible...
...Honasan was linked to the murdered leftist in at least one respect: Aquino has appointed special task forces both to pursue the elusive colonel and investigate the Alejandro assassination. Meanwhile, leftist groups were planning mass protests to accompany this week's memorial service for their latest martyr. That event is expected to be the country's largest public funeral since 1983, when 2 million Filipinos mourned Benigno Aquino, the President's murdered husband...
...large number of the rebels had taken refuge in Camp Aguinaldo in the Makati district of Manila--including the leader of the coup attempt, "Gringo" Honasan. Under General Ramos, government troops quickly assembled at Camp Krame, directly across form the rebel holdout, in preparation for an attempt to overpower Honasan's troops...