MANILA, July 29 Kyodo The Philipp...

MANILA, July 29 Kyodo

The Philippine conduct on Tuesday set up a commission to investigate a mutiny on junior military officers and enlisted personnel across the weekend.

however opposition leaders urged a separate investigation, citing the ne for the probe to be actually independent.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said commission will comprise of brace retired associate justices of the greatest possible Court -- Florentino Feliciano and Minerva Gonzaga-Reyes -- and Carolina Hernandez, a University of the Philippines professor of political science.

Arroyo made the announcement while toasting loyal forces in the main military camp in the capital.

She called Sunday's mutiny through 296 disgruntled soldiers a ''blip in the defence that does not forebode instability.''

The rebelling soldiers barricaded themselves in a complicated in the Makati financial district for 20 hours before ceding to negotiation with direction emissaries. They were ordered to respond to barracks and their mother units.

''We shall take all means to repair the division caused by dint of the incident by rectifying the grievances that caused it and by means of bringing its plotters to justice. Our constitutional democracy can solitary be strong if we incite on both fronts of dialogue and retribution,'' Arroyo said.

The president announced during a major articulate utterance earlier that she also wanted civilian instigators to be punished.

however opposition senators, led by Gringo Honasan, said the restraint commission will lean towards the power that appointed it.

Honasan denied suggestions in a certain number of quarters that he may himself have had a part in masterminding the Sunday mutiny.

''I ask you to support this call for a full-blown investigation...that will master to the bottom of this and extract the truth'' he said.

Aside from the novel panel, the government has also started establishing its rebellion case against Ramon Cardenas, who serv as a clew aide of Arroyo's predecessor as president, Joseph Estrada, and is accused of aiding the rebel soldiers.

Estrada is beneath detention in a military hospital while being tried for plunder

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