Manila Peninsula siege | |||||||
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The Peninsula Manila as seen from Ayala cor. Makati Avenue, where the rebellion took place. | |||||||
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Government-Insurgents | |||||||
Government of the Philippines | Bagong Katipuneros (Magdalo Group) | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Gen. Avelino Razon Gen. Geary Barias |
Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV Danilo Lim Teofisto Guingona, Jr. Nicanor Faeldon | ||||||
Military support | |||||||
Defectors from the Armed Forces of the Philippines and Philippine National Police Civilian volunteers |
The Manila Peninsula siege occurred on November 29, 2007, at The Peninsula Manila hotel in Makati, Philippines. Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, Brigadier General Danilo Lim, and 25 other Magdalo Group officers walked out of their trial for the 2003 Oakwood mutiny coup attempt and marched through the streets of Makati. The mutineers called for the ousting of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and seized the Rizal function room on the second floor of the Manila Peninsula Hotel along Ayala Avenue. Former Vice-president Teofisto Guingona, Jr. as well as some of the soldiers from the Armed Forces of the Philippines joined the march to the hotel.
After several hours, Trillanes and Lim surrendered to government forces after a military armored personnel carrier barged into the glass door of the hotel lobby and the hotel walls and windows sustained weapons damage. Trillanes and the mutineers were arrested while several journalists covering the event were detained. The journalists were subsequently released.