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| Philippines’ Duterte alleges coup plot based on tip from a foreign power |
| 2018-09-12 |
| [ARABNEWS] Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday revealed what he said was a plot to unseat him hatched by the opposition, Maoist rebels and a group of former soldiers who had mounted failed coups in the past. In a conversation with his lawyer, shown on national television, Duterte said he had asked the military to "declassify" information about the plot which he said was gathered by a third country he did not identify. "We have the evidence and we have the conversation provided by a foreign country sympathetic to us," Duterte told Salvador Panelo, presidential legal counsel, in an hour-long conversation. He said the Communists, politicians opposed to him and a group of ex-servicemen, including a senator he wanted tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... after revoking his amnesty, "were in constant communication." Duterte said the "connection will be shown, maybe any day now." Last week, Duterte withdrew a 2010 amnesty granted to his most vocal critic, Senator Antonio Trillanes, a former junior naval officer who led two unsuccessful coup attempts 15 years ago, and ordered his arrest. |
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