Philippines, 2007 — military coup attempt
Event Summary
On 29 November 2007 the Manila Peninsula siege unfolded in the Philippines, when Senator Antonio Trillanes IV and Brigadier General Danilo Lim, on trial for the 2003 Oakwood mutiny, dramatically walked out of their Makati courtroom, marched to the luxury Manila Peninsula hotel with armed supporters, and seized it, calling on the country to rise up and oust President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Trillanes, a former navy officer who had led the earlier Oakwood mutiny and been elected to the Senate from jail, and Lim, together with fellow Magdalo officers and the former vice president Teofisto Guingona, occupied the hotel and broadcast their grievances about corruption and electoral fraud, hoping to spark a new people power uprising. But few Filipinos heeded the call, and the military stayed loyal to Arroyo.
After a roughly six hour standoff, government forces rammed an armored personnel carrier through the hotel's glass lobby, and Trillanes and Lim surrendered to avoid bloodshed; they and journalists covering the event were arrested. The poorly supported revolt, dismissed by analysts as a publicity stunt, failed completely, and Arroyo, a serial survivor of coup plots, held power.
Researched Details
Researched
Independent research, added record by record. Hover any label for what it means.
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
84011292007
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo faced down the November 2007 Manila Peninsula siege by Trillanes and Lim.
Baseline coding: Coup attempt failed to remove the incumbent. 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
CSP
Calgary Herald
The Australian
The Courier - Mail
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 →