WHEREAS, the then President Ferdinand E. Marcos, issuing Proclamation
No. 2045 dated 17 January 1981 and Proclamation No. 2045-A dated 23
July 1983, suspended the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in
the two autonomous regions of Mindanao and in all other places with
respect to persons detained "for all cases involving the crimes of
insurrection, rebellion, subversion, conspiracy or proposal to commit
such crimes, sedition, conspiracy to commit sedition, inciting to
sedition, and for all other crimes or offenses committed by them in
furtherance or on the occasion thereof, or incident thereto, or in
connection therewith, such as but not limited to offenses involving
economic sabotage, illegal assemblies, illegal associations, tumults
and other disturbances of public orders, unlawful fuse of means of
publication and unlawful utterances, and alarms and scandals, or
with respect to any person whose arrest or detention was, in the
judgment of the President, required by public safety as a means to
repel or quell the rebellion in the country;
WHEREAS, the proclamations and decrees mentioned and all the
related decrees, instructions, orders and rules were not warranted
by the requirements of public safety since the existing rebellion
could have been contained by government sincerity at reforms, by
peaceful negotiations and reconciliation, and by steadfast devotion
to the rule of law;
WHEREAS, instead of serving its purpose of suppressing the rebellion
and other threats to national security, the suspension of the
privilege of the writ of habeas corpus drove many to the hills
and fanned the conspiracy to overthrow the government by violence
and force; and
WHEREAS, the Filipino people have established a new government
bound to the ideals of genuine liberty and freedom for all.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution and the
Filipino people, do hereby revoke Proclamations No. 2045 and 2045-A,
and do hereby lift the suspension of the privilege of the writ of
habeas corpus so that this guardian of liberty and freedom may be
available to all.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed to this
proclamation.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 2nd day of March, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Six.
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