Billy Bibit

Bilbastro "Billy" Bibit[1] (March 10, 1950 – October 25, 2009) was a Filipino retired colonel and a Philippine Constabulary lieutenant colonel who led a series of attempted coups against former President of the Philippines Corazon Aquino[2] during the 1980s as a member of the Revolutionary Patriot Alliance (Rebolusyonaryong Alyansang Makabayan, RAM).[3]

Bibit graduated from the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) in 1972.[3][4] He became a founding member of both the RAM and the Guardians Brotherhood.[3]

Bibit was described as a close ally of Senator Gregorio Honasan, who had founded the RAM and led a series of coup attempts against the Aquino administration.[3] In December 1989, he was one of the RAM members who took over the Port of Manila[5] with him leading RAM personnel to controlling main entrances and exits of the port's North and South Harbors.[6] He was sentenced to nine years in jail for rebellion and murder on July 20, 1992.[7]

Aquino later appointed Bibit to a position in the Bureau of Customs.[3] He campaigned for a seat in the Congress of the Philippines in 1992, but lost the election.[3] Bibit later worked in the Economic Intelligence and Investigation Bureau during the early years of the administration of President Gloria Macapagal.[3]

Bibit was hospitalized for the last three years of his life.[3] He died at 9:52 p.m. on October 25, 2009, due to complications of a stroke that happened three years before his death.[2] His funeral took place at Chapel 6 at the Heritage Park in Fort Bonifacio.[3]

  • Bibit was portrayed by actor Rommel Padilla in the 1994 true to life action-drama film Col. Billy Bibit, RAM.
gollark: Just disassemble more Mercury.
gollark: (Nobody likes Mercury, and it's near the sun)
gollark: *Ideally* we would convert Mercury into solar panels with self-replicators of some sort, but you know.
gollark: If you wanted to actually deploy them as, you know, solar panels, you would need more space than that.
gollark: If it wasn't for horrible cost problems (apparently mostly due to regulatory badness) you could basically just get arbitrary amounts of power from nuclear.

References
  1. Keesing's Record of World Events. Longman. 1990. p. 37579. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  2. "Billy Bibit dies at 59". The Philippine Star. 27 October 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  3. Alamar, Noel (2009-10-26). "Ex-coup leader Billy Bibit dies". ABS-CBN News. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
  4. McCoy, Alfred W. (2012). Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation. University of Wisconsin Pres. p. 135. ISBN 9780299288532. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  5. Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism; Photojournalists' Guild of the Philippines (1990). Kudeta: the challenge to Philippine democracy. Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. p. 61. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  6. "The Final Report of the Fact-Finding Commission: V: The Failed December 1989 Coup: Pre-Coup Events and Battle Zone Narratives". Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  7. Asiaweek. Asiaweek Limited. 1992. p. 391. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
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