Philippines, 1987 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 12 April 1987, during the sustained wave of military plotting against President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines, between the January 1987 GMA-7 seizure and the far larger August 1987 coup attempt. Discontent ran high among professional officers, many linked to the Reform the Armed Forces Movement and to supporters of the deposed Ferdinand Marcos, over Aquino's perceived leniency toward the communist insurgency and the presence of leftist officials in her cabinet. In this climate a series of coup attempts and armed actions unfolded through 1987: after rebel soldiers occupied the GMA-7 television station in late January, thirteen rebel soldiers staged a raid on Fort Bonifacio on Black Saturday, 18 April 1987, which was repelled within the morning with one rebel soldier killed.
The 12 April 1987 coding sits in this period of anti-Aquino conspiracy and RAM-linked military restiveness, close to the Black Saturday Fort Bonifacio raid, as the plotting built toward the bloody August 1987 attempt led by Gregorio Honasan.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
Editorial Note
Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
84004121987
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Aquino survived the 1987 plots, including the major August coup attempt, and served out her term to 1992.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
Chicago Tribune
Los Angeles Times
South China Sunday Morning Post
The Vancouver Sun
The Windsor Star
This is the citation trail carried by the baseline dataset, grouped by outlet and rejoined from the line-wrapped original. Coup Atlas has not independently re-checked every document; read the original before citing a specific claim. URLs the import damaged beyond safe repair are shown as plain text and listed in citations-report.md. How this list is built →