PMA grads from Mindanao seek Trillanes’ expulsion from PMA alumni organization

(Eagle News) — A group from the Philippine Military Academy Alumni Association Inc. has sought the expulsion of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV from the rolls of the alumni organization for “unbecoming acts that damaged the Academy’s honor and prestige.”

In a paid advertisement in several newspapers, the Eagle Fraternal Chapter of the PMAAI based in Mindanao said Trillanes should be expelled because of “the crime of coup d’etat and graft, disrespect and arrogant behavior toward senior officers and the President, treason acts, engaging in propaganda activities, constant annoying actions and for allegedly propagating a blatant lie that he has the support of PMAyers.”

The group also lashed out at the senator for his failure to reveal information about his  “backdoor negotiations” with China over the dispute in Panatag Shoal during the time of then-President Benigno Aquino III.

The group also referenced Trillanes’ public humiliation of  then-Defense Secretary Angelo Reyes during a Senate hearing.

Reyes later shot himself in front of his mother’s grave, and was declared dead on arrival in the hospital.

“(Trillanes’) pattern of behavior shown in several instances as: a coup plotter during the Oakwood Mutiny in 2003 and the Manila Peninsula Siege in 2007; a senator with abrasive behavior during Senate hearing; a Filipino citizen with utter disregard and rudeness to authroities such as the Office of the President is an obvious display of conduct unbecoming of a public official and questionable mental health, fond of creating discord and divisiveness instead of his supposed duties to create policies to establish well ordered society,” the group said.

“In view of the foregoing facts and circumstances, we, the members of the PMAAAI Eagle Fraternal Chapter based in Mindanao do hereby affix our signatures to affirm and reiterate our collective stand ostracizing Senator Antonio F. Trillanes IV and ousting him as PMAAAI member for conduct unbecoming of a public official,” the group added.