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GENERAL ORDER NO. 1 - DIRECTING THE
ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES AND THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE TO
SUPPRESS THE REBELLION IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION
WHEREAS, the angry and violent mob, armed
with explosives, firearms, bladed weapons, clubs, stones and other
deadly weapons, in great part coming from the mass gathering at the
EDSA Shrine, and other armed groups, having been agitated and incited
and, acting upon the instigation and under the command and direction of
known and unknown leaders, have and continue to assault and attempt to
break into Malacañang with the avowed purpose of overthrowing
the duly constituted Government and forcibly seize political power, and
have and continue to rise publicly, show open hostility, and take up
arms against the duly constituted Government for the purpose of
removing from the allegiance to the Government certain bodies of the
Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police, and
to deprive the President of the Republic of the Philippines, wholly or
partially, of her powers and prerogatives which constitute the
continuing crime of rebellion punishable under Article 134 of the
Revised Penal Code;
WHEREAS, armed groups recruited by known and unknown leaders,
conspirators, and plotters have and continue to rise publicly and by
the use of arms overthrow the duly constituted Government and forcibly
seize political power;
WHEREAS, under Article VII, Section 18 of the Constitution, whenever it
becomes necessary, the President as the Commander-in-Chief of all armed
forces of the Philippines, may call out such armed forces to suppress
the rebellion;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, by virtue of the powers
vested in me under the Constitution as President of the Republic of the
Philippines and Commander-in-Chief of all armed forces of the
Philippines and pursuant to Proclamation No. 38 dated May 1, 2001, do
hereby call upon the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine
National Police to suppress and quell the rebellion.
I hereby direct the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the
Philippines and the Chief of the Philippine National Police and the
officers and men of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the
Philippine National Police to immediately carry out the necessary and
appropriate actions and measures to suppress and quell the rebellion
with due regard to constitutional rights.
City of Manila, May 1, 2001.
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