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Viewing cable 06MANILA241, RESPONSES TO USG RETENTION OF CUSTODY IN SUBIC CASE

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06MANILA241 2006-01-18 08:30 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Manila
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180830Z Jan 06
UNCLAS MANILA 000241 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
DEPT FOR EAP, EAP/MTS, L/EAP, EAP/PD 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
SUBJECT: RESPONSES TO USG RETENTION OF CUSTODY IN SUBIC CASE 
 
REF: A. MANILA 218 
 
     B. MANILA 192 
     C. MANILA 191 
     D. MANILA 134 AND PREVIOUS 
 
1.  (U) Summary.  Philippine media on January 18 covered 
extensively the Embassy's public announcement that the U.S. 
would invoke the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) and retain 
custody of four Marines accused of rape.  Several politicians 
voiced anti-VFA and/or anti-U.S. sentiments.  Court officials 
pledged to move forward with the case despite this 
"disappointment."  Small numbers of protesters marched past 
the Embassy on January 17 and 18, but no wider public 
reaction has materialized.  End Summary. 
 
2.  (U) Local media on January 18 provided extensive coverage 
of the Embassy's public announcement that the U.S. would 
invoke the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) and retain custody 
of four Marines accused of rape (ref A), as well as of local 
reactions.  Several senators, including co-chairman of the 
VFA Legislative Oversight Committee Miriam Defensor-Santiago, 
demanded that the GRP should now re-examine the VFA. 
Defensor-Santiago pledged to introduce a sense of the 
Congress resolution demanding at least renegotiation of the 
VFA for President Arroyo's consideration.  She declared that 
the USG refusal was "no way to treat a co-equal or even a 
valued ally," a sentiment echoed by Senator Manuel Villar. 
Opposition Senator Joker Arroyo (no relation to President 
Arroyo) declared that the USG's "intransigence will only 
provoke an agitation for a re-examination" of the VFA, "and, 
if need be, its abrogation to correct an inequality and 
settle once and for all the continuing and unresolved issue 
that has plagued all US-Philippine military treaties in the 
past half century, namely the question of custody over US 
servicemen who commit offenses in the Philippines." 
 
3.  (U) Senator Arroyo also claimed that "the US has adopted 
a double standard, one for the Philippines and another for 
other countries...The Philippines cannot go on with this 
one-way relationship with the United States."  Opposition 
Representative Rolex Suplico of Iloilo said the USG's 
decision showed "the low respect the Americans (have) for 
Filipinos."  Senate President Franklin Drilon said the USG's 
actions should serve as a wake-up call for Malacanang to 
fight for the interests of the country. 
 
4.  (U) The presiding judge in the trial, Renato Dilag, 
reportedly declined Chief State Prosecutor Jovencito Zuno's 
request immediately to arraign the accused Marines so that 
the court could have custody of the four soldiers, stating, 
"I cannot take the initiative for that."  Dilag further 
suggested that, with the question of custody finally 
resolved, albeit in the USG's favor, the case might even move 
forward faster than it has thus far.  Prosecutor Prudencio 
Jalandoni told reporters that he does not consider the 
development a setback for the prosecution.  Dilag and 
Jalandoni both reportedly expressed their "disappointment" 
over the US decision, however. 
 
5.  (SBU) The media also reported Jalandoni's confirmation of 
reports that the alleged rape victim's private counsel, 
Katrina Legarda, and her group at the Child Justice League 
have resigned from the case.  Legarda, a prominent attorney 
associated with several past high-profile cases in the 
Philippines, privately conveyed this news to emboff during 
the last week of December, but there have been no public 
reports of her resignation until now.  Jalandoni and 
officials of the Department of Justice have asserted that 
Legarda's withdrawal does not indicate that the case will not 
be prosecuted successfully or that the GRP is giving up on 
it.  According to one account, her team only signed on to 
ensure charges were filed, not to see the case through 
prosecution. 
 
6.  (SBU) On the morning of January 18, Philippine National 
Police (PNP) contacts informed RSO that leftist groups 
Partido Ng Manggagawa, Gabriela, and Health Alliance for 
Democracy had received protest permits and were planning to 
march past the Embassy.  This march, which took place over 
the lunch hour, involved approximately 50 protesters, a size 
typical of the protests involving this case.  There was also 
a smaller protest at the Embassy's main gates on January 17. 
In both cases, PNP Civil Disturbance Team officers 
effectively assisted in ensuring security, and the protests 
concluded without incident. 
Bellard