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| Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim; Soldier, Idealist, Enemy of State? | |
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| Fmr TOPP Awardee 82'PNP | May 12 2006, 04:52 PM Post #21 |
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Absolutely ! Whatever the General had said about the can of worms he noticed himself which deserved to be thrown back to the regime is equavalent to the voice of thousands of desenters marching down the street to protest against the same subject as the General was protesting about. |
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| jooper | Jun 22 2006, 06:58 PM Post #22 |
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Binura na ng Inquirer pero "hinugot" ko hikhikhikhik -yung link di na gumagana pero "stored" ko: http://news.inq7.net/opinion/index.php?ind...&story_id=68380 Danilo Lim’s ‘roller-coaster ride’ First posted 07:34am (Mla time) Mar 05, 2006 By Fe B. Zamora Inquirer Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 5, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer AS he lay dying in January last year, retired Commodore Domingo Calajate kept asking for Capt. Danilo Lim. When Lim finally showed up at the Cardinal Santos Hospital, the nurses heaved a sigh of relief and ushered him into a room. “How can I refuse a dying man’s wish?” Lim would tell the Inquirer in May at the Club Filipino, where he was given a testimonial dinner for his promotion as brigadier general, and as chair of the Rebolusyonaryong Alyansang Makabansa (RAM), which was Calajate’s dying wish. In his speech, Lim dispelled doubts about possible conflict of interest that may arise from his positions in the Armed Forces of the Philippines and in RAM, which, despite a peace pact with the government, continues to be linked to destabilization plots. Lim emphasized that under his helm, RAM would become a civic group, even a cooperative for the welfare of retired and active military men. Calajate’s final request highlighted his trust and confidence in Lim over the more senior former Sen. Gregorio “Gringo” Honasan, who co-founded RAM, then known as Reform the Armed Forces Movement, in 1985. Honasan tried to wrest control of RAM by declaring himself chair of the steering committee. But majority of RAM’s some 4,000 membership agreed to honor Calajate’s choice. Former rebel soldiers from RAM, Young Officers Union and the Soldiers of the Filipino People (SFP) speak highly of Lim’s role in the peace negotiations in 1993, which resulted in amnesty in 1995. Except for those who opted to retire with full benefits, the mutinous troops, including those convicted for the 1987 violent attack on Camp Aguinaldo, were reinstated and given back pay for years spent in the military stockade. No work no pay Lim, the defiant Army captain who led the march of fully armed Rangers back to Fort Bonifacio after a failed coup in December 1989, waived his back pay, invoking his personal creed of “no work, no pay.” But he would not impose his belief on others. That was one of the reasons he negotiated the back pay. Close friends said that was typical Danny, whose military career had been described by his wife, Aloysia Tiongson-Lim, as an exhilarating “roller-coaster ride.” “Danny’s military career can be described as a roller-coaster ride mainly due to his principles, advocacy and fight for ideals in the military organization and good governance for the country,” she wrote in the class roster. West Point A 1978 graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point and member of the same batch at the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), Lim’s military career began as platoon leader of the all-Igorot Forward Recon Unit based in Jolo, a unique group organized and led by another controversial officer, then Lt. Ricardo “Dick” Morales. But Lim’s career took a nosedive when rebel soldiers led by him occupied the Makati commercial district from Dec. 1 to 7, 1989 in an attempt to unseat President Corazon Aquino. The Scout Rangers occupied Makati after other rebel attempts to seize military installations had failed, including the rebel Marines who rammed Gate 1 of Camp Aguinaldo with a Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT), leaving more than a dozen soldiers dead and wounded. ... Ariel Querubin’s escape Among the ‘cadavers’ was the team leader—then Capt. Ariel Querubin. Querubin was bleeding profusely from wounds in the stomach. A doctor who checked the cadavers for identification, however, noticed a slight twitch on his finger. Querubin was nursed back to life at the V. Luna Hospital where he would escape months later with the help of the doctor. Years after the incident, Querubin would tell the Inquirer that his getaway vehicle was driven by a businessman. Wanted He joined the underground rebel group when the military issued “wanted posters” with rewards for him and three other Marines who were branded “mad bombers and terrorists.” Then AFP chief of staff Gen. Renato de Villa even described Querubin as “psychotic.” By that time, however, Querubin’s exploits at Gate 1 had already formed part of combat stories that soldiers love to talk about among themselves. Even his classmates expressed awe at his exploits, but in typical PMA banter. “Whenever we hear rumors of a coup, we always ask, ‘On which side is Ariel?’ We don’t want to be on his side because he would surely survive, and we won’t,” a colonel from PMA Class 1979 said with a laugh. Truancy Even at the PMA, Querubin already led a charmed life, according to another classmate. Querubin was originally a member of class 1977, but was “turned back” twice for various infractions of PMA regulations, such as drinking alcohol, breaking curfew and even plain truancy. “But never on academic deficiencies,” Querubin once told the Inquirer. That Lim and Querubin would find themselves on the same side during the 1989 coup was something that colleagues did not find surprising. But their amnesty and subsequent promotion were resented by officers who fought them during the coup. One officer said promoting Lim would send the wrong signal to younger officers that in the military “one can get away with murder.” The rebellious past of Querubin was also the subject of discussion by the board that decided to award him the Medal of Valor. A source, who was privy to the discussion, said the issue also hinged on the “wrong signal” that could arise from giving the most prestigious medal to a former rebel. That they would become “suspects” in fresh plots to unseat a President also did not surprise a police senior superintendent, who is close to both Lim and Querubin. “They are not corrupt. They are both idealists and they have their own tales of heroism that would inspire soldiers to follow them,” the source, a 1978 PMA graduate who is involved in monitoring suspected coup plotters, told the Inquirer. |
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| Wardog | Jul 5 2006, 10:16 AM Post #23 |
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Make this for real, not another moro-moro, to finally teach a lesson to these misguided and opportunistic (and future) leeches in the military: 38 AFP officers, 27 men face raps for Feb. 24 coup
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| jooper | Jul 30 2006, 12:54 PM Post #24 |
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Muntik ko nang makalimutang idagdag ito sa ating forum. Brigadier General Danilo Lim, YOU co-founder..."rebolusyunaryong ranger"[salamat sa isang SR sa PASR forum who coined the term] Parang showbiz ano!? Malapit nga pala ang 18th. anniversary ng Y.O.U. this coming August 8. -Ka Joma Season/intel 101/"alexcruel" http://showbizandstyle.inq7.net/sim/sim/vi...rticle_id=11260 Sunday Inquirer Magazine You are here: Home > Showbiz & Style > Sunday Inquirer Magazine COVER STORY The military’s ‘VIP’ (very important prisoner) By Fe Zamora Inquirer Last updated 03:21am (Mla time) 07/23/2006 Published on page Q1 of the July 23, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer BRIG. General Danilo Lim has the heart of a civilian trapped in a soldier’s battle-scarred body. “Maybe I should have not been in the military,” Lim told a friend who had visited him recently at his heavily-secured military quarters at the Philippine Army Officers’ Village (Paovil) in Fort Bonifacio. “I cannot be a fence-sitter; never was, never would be,” Lim was also supposed to have said. Outside his leafy abode, a group of soldiers man a makeshift checkpoint; another group had set up a sentry at the back, beefing up the guards at the Paovil gate, just 20 meters away from Lim’s house. Such airtight security arrangements have earned Lim the distinction of being “most important prisoner” in recent coup-prone military history. Lim has been under military custody since a videotape of himself announcing his withdrawal of support from President Arroyo surfaced in a news program. The tape was to have been used on Feb. 24, when soldiers marching out of their camp were supposed to meet with civilians out in the streets to commemorate the Edsa revolt. It was proof, claims Malacañang, of a Leftist-Rightist plot against the government that justifies Arroyo’s proclamation of a state of emergency. The charges that Lim would lead the conspiracy have surprised those who know him only as an indulgent father to his only daughter, Aika. Just five years ago, Aika Lim dragged her father to the Cineplex in Glorietta. The older Lim had already forgotten what it was like to watch a movie. “I haven’t been inside a movie house since 1973,” Lim told the Inquirer then. Transformed from security-conscious officer into a dutiful dad, Lim was having a good time when Aika nudged him to take a closer look at their seatmate. It was Phillip Salvador, the movie actor whose tumultuous love affair with Kris Aquino had been the staple news in those days. Lim was amused, but Aika was adamant. She wanted her Dad to get Phillip’s autograph. Putty Lim, the hardline Army captain who negotiated that the rebel troops be allowed to returned to barracks, weapons and all, can be putty in his daughter’s hands. An only child, Aika was a baby when Lim was detained for the December 1989 coup. A former detainee recalled several officers doing “infantry” duties in jail, among them Lim. Another detainee, an alleged communist leader from Southern Luzon, Vic Ladlad, would be Aika’s godfather, a relationship that transcended the ideological divide between Lim and Ladlad. When Aika starred in her school’s musical production in 2001, Lim unabashedly invited media friends to watch the play. The souvenir program also showed ad placements from military organizations that could only have come from the solicitation of a very supportive father. A consistent honor student in Solano, Nueva Vizcaya, Lim was a freshmen at the University of the Philippines in Diliman when one of his classmates, Renato Heredia, came to class with application forms for the Philippine Military Academy (PMA). It was 1972. Martial law had just been declared. Lim said he signed up for the heck of it. “There were many who had signed up, so I joined the line,” he said. The successful examinees either had brothers at the PMA, like Heredia, or had fathers who were PMA alumni or military officers. Second highest Lim, the youngest of five sons of a Chinese migrant worker from Xiamen and a hardworking businesswoman from Bohol, did not top the exams, but the topnotcher backed out, pushing Lim, who had the second highest score, to the top slot. Lim was sent to the US Military Academy in West Point in 1974. “I would have wanted to be a doctor, but it was too expensive,” Lim said. He did not want to burden his mother or four brothers, either. Lim’s father died when he was 5 and his mother raised the brood by herself. Since his older brothers finished college on scholarships, Lim felt he too had to get by on scholarship. Fortunately, Lim found academics, especially the math subjects, a breeze at West Point. The regimented military life also suited him, as he adapted to it seamlessly. Even his marriage was something of a record, according to another classmate. Lim’s wife, Aloysia, was actually his neighbor and classmate from elementary to high school. “But there was nothing there then,” Lim once told the Inquirer. “(The attraction) came later.” Upon graduation from West Point in 1978, Lim was sent to Jolo to head the all-Igorot Forward Recon Unit. The unit was often sent out to patrol the enemy lairs, chalking up seemingly endless encounters that had their senior officers shaking their heads in disbelief. A former pilot who sometimes airlifted the wounded recalled in jest that the Igorot troops never realized what they were getting into because Lieutenant Lim kept them drunk with gin. Wounded twice But Lim would himself be wounded twice from grenade shrapnels. After his second hospitalization in 1981, then Col. Arturo Enrile sought him out. “He told me, ‘I better take you out from here before you run out of luck,’” Lim recalled. From Jolo, Lim was transferred to the PMA, where he taught math subjects. He would also become the aide-de-camp to PMA Superintendent Brig. Gen. Jose Ma. Zumel, and administrative officer of PMA Superintendent Brig. Gen. Rodolfo Biazon in 1986. In March 1987, a bomb exploded at the PMA grandstand, ripping off a roof and wounding several personnel, including then Col. Lisandro Abadia, the PMA commandant of cadets. Lim was among those suspected behind the incident, but this was never proven. Before the incident, however, Lim had supposedly questioned the alleged anomalous deals at Biazon’s office. From the PMA, Lim was transferred to the Scout Rangers, the unit that he led in the takeover of the Makati Commercial and Business District in the December 1989 coup. Doubts The Feb. 23 videotape seemed to be an apt follow up. Lim’s doubts about President Arroyo’s mandate started soon after the May 2004 elections, when rumors circulated in the military circle about how some senior officers had allowed the President’s allies to use the military camps in the cheating operations, particularly in Basilan, Sulu, Lanao and Cotabato areas in Mindanao. There were also rumors that some units from the Marines and the Scout Rangers had reportedly refused to cooperate with Malacañang’s allies in the military. Compounding the situation was the alleged braggadocio of some officers who were supposed to have orchestrated the cheating operations, to the consternation of the young officers, including some Rangers who sought out Lim for advice. A senior colonel who talked to Lim then told the Inquirer that he was concerned about the Scout Rangers that Lim headed. “Lim does not believe that GMA won the elections. This is problematic,” the colonel said of his former classmate. Fearless prognosis Lim’s doubts were reportedly shared by many officers, with one of them expressing doubts that the President would be hounded by questions about her mandate. “GMA cannot govern,” was his fearless prognosis, as of June, 2004. The cracks in the military armor surfaced after the June 6, 2005 airing of the “Hello Garci” tapes, the wiretapped telephone conversations between Comelec Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano and several personalities, including Ms Arroyo and her husband, First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo. The tapes seem to confirm allegations of fraud during the May 2004 elections, with at least four generals mentioned in the tapes as being involved. On July 8, 2005, a group of military officers had reportedly planned to withdraw support from the President, joining the group of senior cabinet members who had resigned en masse and urging Ms Arroyo to do the same for the sake of national unity. But Lim prevailed over the disgruntled. Later that month, Lim’s group, the now-defunct Young Officers Union (YOU, also issued a statement of withdrawal from the 1995 peace agreement it had forged with the government. Lim denied the YOU statement. He also sent a text message to the Inquirer, to the effect that he was “under pressure from all sides.” In fact, Lim was under surveillance from the military and under intense courtship from the opposition. At the necrological rites for Capt. Rene Jarque at the Fort Bonifacio chapel in September 2005, Lim showed up by his lonesome. Close tabs But a civilian-clad soldier tailed him, always keeping within earshot of the general. Malacañang also kept close tabs of his activities, often inviting him to dinner at the Palace. By late January 2006, Lim had reportedly visited troops in Mindanao to sound them off about his plans to withdraw support from President Arroyo. An officer he talked with said Lim did not indicate he would “do something” anytime soon. “We talked and he said it was ’no go,’” the officer told the Inquirer. In less than a month, Lim would “go,” to the surprise of even his closest friends. Since Feb. 24 when he was placed under house arrest, Lim has not been allowed to talk to the press. Some have managed to sneak in, however, accompanied by lawyers, priests and relatives. Former Inquirer reporter Andrea Trinidad-Echavez visited Lim one day in July. Lim had been Echavez’ sponsor at her church wedding to Dick Echavez in 2001. According to Echavez, Lim was in good spirits, and seemed at peace with himself and the world. “He looks confident that all would end up well,” Echavez said. Having hit rock bottom after the 1989 coup, Lim knows only too well how to play his cards. “He’s a tactician. He’s been through a lot. What is happening to him now is chicken feed,” Echavez added. Besides, people who’ve met Lim also know that the man would rather pay the price of taking sides than stay still, watching from the sidelines. Copyright 2006 Inquirer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. |
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| saver111 | Sep 18 2009, 08:21 PM Post #25 |
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Gen. Lim set to retire from AFP abs-cbnNEWS.com | 09/18/2009 12:55 PM MANILA - Detained Brig. Gen. Danny Lim on Friday expressed his readiness to retire from the Armed Forces of the Philippines following his declaration to join the senatorial race in the coming 2010 elections. “This is mandatory both by law and the dictates of ethics, yes, I am shedding my uniform but not my oath to serve the Filipino people and pursue meaningful reforms,” Lim stated in a press statement. Lim issued the statement as a response to the issue on whether government officials should resign from their positions after signifying their intention run for national elective office. “This is also required by our people’s longing for a new brand of politics, and yes, I am prepared,” Lim said. Lim, 54, declared his intention to run as senator on a platform of nationalism and reform during his two-day pass visit to his hometown last month. He said he will effectively hang up his uniform after 35 years of service once he files his certificate of candidacy on the last week of November. Lim has been detained since 2006 for his alleged involvement in two botched rebellions under the administration of President Arroyo. The co-founder of the Young Officers’ Union (YOU), an organization of young lieutenants and captains that joined alongside other AFP reformist organizations, Lim has served in the Philippine Army upon graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1978. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/09/18/09...-set-retire-afp |
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| Fmr TOPP Awardee 82'PNP | Oct 23 2009, 05:36 AM Post #26 |
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It is typical of this country. Good wo/men just fade away. The bad ones always flourish and even got a chance to rule. And it is co-terminus with the existence of this planet..ie...it will never be different again. |
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| caterwaul | Aug 2 2011, 01:42 PM Post #27 |
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Danny Lim was interviewed by Karen Davila on ANC Headstart this morning and he confirmed what he said in this previous article: MANILA, Philippines - A military rebel running for the Senate has alleged that 2 former military chiefs were convinced that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo should have been forced out of Malacañang, but backed out due to their alleged personal ambitions. Former Scout Ranger chief Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim, who is now running for senator, said former Armed Forces chief Gen. Generoso Senga and then Army chief Lt. Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. were open to the idea of ousting Mrs. Arroyo through a military uprising in 2006. Lim, detained for leading the supposed military uprising during the 20th anniversary of the EDSA people power revolt in February 1986, said the 2 backed out of the plan due to political enticements. Senga is now ambassador to Iran, while Esperon recently resigned as head of the Presidential Management Staff to run for congressman in Pangasinan. Before Esperon's appointment to Malacañang, he took over the military leadership from Senga and then appointed as presidential adviser on peace process after his retirement. Lim called the 2 military chiefs "turncoats and rabid opportunists." http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/04/23/10...nted-arroyo-out |
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| didu | Sep 16 2011, 02:11 PM Post #28 |
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Lim vows to end Customs corruption http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/news/m...toms-corruption “WE will not treat you with kid gloves!” Thus declared former Army General Danilo Lim as he vowed to crush corruption and crackdown against smugglers at the Bureau of Customs. Lim, a former commander of the First Scout Ranger Regiment, took his oath of office before President Benigno S. Aquino III in Malacañang yesterday as the new BOC deputy commissioner for intelligence. Lim, a graduate of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) Makatarungan Class 1978, showed up at Malacañang with his wife Aloy and daughter Aika. He was recipient of various military awards, decorations, and commendations mostly for combat, field accomplishments that include the Gold Cross Medal for gallantry in action. Outgoing BOC chief Angelito Alvarez formally quits his post and leaves it today when newly appointed Customs chief Rozzano “Ruffy” Biazon takes over at the helm of the BOC after taking his oath before President Aquino at Malacañang, according to presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda. In a press statement, Lim vowed to fight smugglers and their cohorts inside and outside the BOC. “Binabalaan ko kayo, itigil na ninyo ang inyong mga kalakaran at iba pang masamang balakin. We will not treat you with kid gloves. You will not enjoy undue favor and advantage in this bureau,” Lim said. |
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| Samir_Duran | Sep 16 2011, 02:15 PM Post #29 |
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| Hitman | Sep 17 2011, 11:39 AM Post #30 |
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General Lim should be pardoned. |
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