Senator Antonio Trillanes IV and President Rodrigo Duterte. INQUIRER FILE PHOTOS
President Rodrigo Duterte has revoked the amnesty granted to Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV.
Duterte signed Proclamation 572 on August 31 to revoke the senator鈥檚 amnesty given by former president Benigno Aquino III in 2010.
In the proclamation, Duterte said Trillanes did not file an Official Amnesty Application Form聽 as per certification dated August 30, 2018, issued by Lt. Col. Thea Joan Andrade, stating 鈥渢here is no copy of his application for amnesty in the records.鈥�
The proclamation also stated that Trillanes 鈥渘ever expressed his guilt for the crimes that were committed on the occasion of the Oakwood Mutiny and the Manila Peninsula Siege.鈥�
Despite Trillanes鈥� 鈥渇ailure to apply for amnesty and refusal to admit guilt, his name was nonetheless included among those granted amnesty鈥� in 2010 and was approved by former defense secretary Voltaire Gazmin, the proclamation read.
鈥淭he grant of amnesty聽 to former LTSG Antonio Trillanes IV under Proclamation No. 75 is declared void ab initio because he did not comply with the minimum requirements to qualify under the amnesty proclamation,鈥� Duterte said.
The President ordered the Department of Justice and the Court Marshall of the Armed Forces of the Philippines 鈥渢o pursue all criminal and administrative charges鈥� against Trillanes.
Duterte also ordered the military and the police 鈥渢o employ all lawful means to apprehend鈥� the coup leader 鈥渟o that he can be recommitted to the detention facility where he had been incarcerated for him to stand trial for the crimes he is charged with.鈥� /cbb