A woman’s symbolic act of defiance
- country’s maritime sector such that their names still ring inspiration even years after their triumphs.
Maritime Industry Authority’s (Marina) deputy executive director for Standards of (STCW). While she is now spending her days pushing papers and managing the many from the military and merchant marine sectors remember her as the woman who once jumped into the sea and tussled with the Chinese Coast Guard to plant the time with Independence Day.
Peaceful protest
- youth awareness on the issues surrounding the West Philippine Sea.
Its peaceful protest initially earned the approval of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and then-President Benigno Simeon Aquino 3rd. A few days before seas and the provocation it may cause to the Chinese.
“The AFP exerted all efforts to stop us did not think that it will even affect the pending case in the arbitration because our of other countries and we are taking the
Defiance
“There were only 17 of us who were that is where you’ll see the patriotism of a We simply need to take the lead so the
“It was Independence Day and we in Scarborough. A hundred meters off the - boat with its crew demanding that we leave immediately. We remained in our place and there was a three-hour stand-off.”
and swam hard toward the shoal with the Chinese patrol boats circling and chasing Guard caught and pierced her dry bag containing the Philippine and United Nations blurred her sight.
Ban-Eg failed to reach the shoal. But she Philippine Sea for her motherland.
“It was like a movie scene. But sometimes I wonder whether they understood what was happening back then. They seemed to be clueless and no reaction when we waved the flag. back then. They were simply baffled by youth who did nothing but wave flags and cheer.
The photo was widely circulated in Atin Ito successfully claimed Scarborough - arbitral tribunal at the Permanent Court - ing China’s claims over the majority of the West Philippine Sea.
“What I have is my love for my country. We will enforce the law and it should be followed here in Marina. We offer a There will be no corruption within our is all part of the change that we promised