MANILA - Senator Antonio Trillanes, two Negrenses and 34 others, have been charged with rebellion following last week's failed mutiny, the justice department said yesterday.

Among those charged are former vice president Teofisto Guingona, Bishop Julio Labayen who is from Bacolod City , and Captain Gary Alejano of Sipalay City .

The charge of rebellion carries a sentence of life imprisonment.

All of the accused are charged with seizing the Peninsula Hotel in Makati City by force last Thursday as part of a plot "to topple the Government and replace it with a new government," according to the charge sheet.

State prosecutors also asked that bail be denied to the accused.

Trillanes was a former naval officer who quit the armed forces and won a senate seat in May, having campaigned from his prison cell.

The officers stormed out at their trial in civilian court on Thursday and marched on the Makati financial district, about three kilometers away, before seizing the hotel.

Government forces firing guns and tear gas stormed the hotel and arrested the suspects after a six-hour standoff. No casualties were reported.

The government has offered a million-peso reward for information leading to the arrest of another officer, Captain Nicanor Faeldon, who escaped when government forces retook the building.

Senior State Prosecutor Emmanuel Velasco, said that aside from Trillanes, Guingona, Labayen and Alejano, included in the rebellion raps were Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim, Father Robert Reyes, Capt. Segundino Orfiano Jr., Lt. Senior Grades Manuel Cabochan and James Layug, Lt. Junior Grade Arturo Pascua Jr., 1st Lt. Eugene Peralta;

Lt. Andy Torrato, 1st Lt. Billy Pasua, 1st Lt. Jonel Sangalan, ENS Armand Pontejos, lawyers J.V. Bautista and Yassir Gonzales, CPL Clecarde Dahan, Private First Class Juanito Jilbury, PFC Emmanuel Tirador;

PFC German Linde, Myrna Buendia, Dominador Rull Jr., Romeo Solis, Roel Gadon, Rommel Loreto, Julian Advincula, Francisco Bosi;

Leodor Dela Cruz, Sonny Madarang, Elizabeth Siguion-Reyna, Francisco Penaflor, and several John and Jane Does.*AFP

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