Nine o'clock sharp, Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

As precise as the working hours, when the government arrives at nine o'clock, the doors of the various government offices in Puerto Princesa begin their day's work, and the various government agencies open their doors.

Originally, there were groups of people who seemed to be chatting, and suddenly they changed into a white shirt with various slogans written on it, and began to walk towards the gates of various government offices, like the water droplets scattered all over the place slowly gathered into a small river, and the scattered crowds slowly gathered into a torrent, and walked towards the gates of various government offices in a uniform manner.

The Philippine police, who had been ready for a long time, rushed out of the corner, armed with riot shields in their hands, and stood like a dam among government offices and protesters.

"The Palawans run Palawan, the government get out of Palawan!"

"We want autonomy, we want autonomy!"

"To raise the salary of the working class, we want more benefits!"

"We're going to ・・・・・・"

All kinds of slogans sounded again, this time the protest demonstration has lasted for more than a week, for this kind of protest demonstration, everyone has become accustomed to this kind of protest demonstration, and more than a week of protest is not too long for a country like the Philippines that often has protests that last for half a month.

But today's protest crowd is a little different, the crowd that was originally concentrated in the government building is significantly reduced today, only half of the crowd yesterday, and the crowded streets yesterday have enough space for people to sit and rest.

Inside the government building, the mayor of Puerto Princesa, Clarro, and his assistant Lumaca were standing at the door of the office looking at the crowd shouting slogans not far downstairs, and they breathed a sigh of relief: "Mr. Mayor, the crowd is more than half less than yesterday, I think the crowd of demonstrators will disperse tomorrow and the day after tomorrow!" ”

Clarro nodded, obviously agreeing with his assistant's words: "These damn shitty people, good days, have to run out to demonstrate, and shout slogans, want Palawan autonomy, don't they know that I want Palawan autonomy more than they do, don't they know that we don't have the ability to govern at all?" Damn these stupid people, I heard that the parliament is already preparing to tighten its grip on Palawan and is preparing to send a division of troops into Palawan. “

"Hey!" The assistant sighed, Palawan is not Mindanao, this is the money bag of the Philippines, and it is impossible for the Philippine government to let this place be autonomous, especially in recent years, the Philippines has continued to increase military spending, and the fiscal deficit has appeared.

The crowd of protesters and demonstrations in front of the government building has decreased, so that the military police in front of the door feel a lot less pressure, and yesterday's saber-rattling atmosphere is different, today's atmosphere has become a little weird, the scene is very friendly, the demonstrators did not impact the military and police who maintained order, nor did they throw all kinds of weapons, just kept shouting slogans, compared with yesterday's scene of eggs and pickles flying all over the sky today is simply world peace.

Southwest of Puerto Princesa, at the entrance of the Municipal Police Station.

As demonstrations continue to erupt in Palawan, the police department has become one of the busiest departments in Puerto Princesa, and in order to deal with any possible accidents, all mobile police officers from the surrounding towns have been transferred to Puerto Princessa.

At present, the city police station has almost no garrison force, only a few office clerks and more than a dozen police officers in their fifties, who are responsible for receiving possible situations and handling daily cases, and the rest of the police officers have all gone to various government departments in the city to maintain order.

Of all the demonstrations that broke out in Puerto Princesa, some went to the government office building, some went to the power department, some went to the commerce department, and some went to the tax department, but of the more than 50 demonstrations recorded, not a single one went to the police station to make trouble.

However, there is something wrong with the atmosphere of the Puerto Princesa Police Station today, starting at eight o'clock in the morning, there are constantly people rushing from a distance not far from the police station, gathering in groups of three or five to chat, and there seems to be no difference from ordinary people.

But at 9 a.m., these people, like many of the demonstrators, began to gather and finally gathered in front of the police station, which for the first time in the history of Puerto Princesa broke out.

These people were a group of party members led by the Puerto Princesa Workers' Party, who had only been notified in the morning to gather from all over Puerto Princesa, holding improvised banners and shouting loudly in front of the police station.

However, the slogans of these people were not the same as those of those gathered in front of the city hall building, and instead of shouting slogans such as calling for Palawan autonomy, they demanded the release of the captured Garo and others.

These people were only informed in the morning that the banners they had written before were obviously useless, and they could only improvise and write all kinds of slogans.

"Release innocent prisoners, we want democracy, we don't want power!"

"Demonstrations are legal, and marches are our rights under the law!"

"Oppose the persecution and release the innocent immediately!"

"Release Galo, release democracy!"

I have to say that the language and the talent for shouting slogans of these marchers, a simple arrest operation, but they were endowed with a different political color, and even played slogans such as democracy and freedom, as if not releasing Garo is not respecting democracy.

The staff inside the police station were frightened by the sudden crowd of demonstrators outside the house, but fortunately these demonstrators were law-abiding citizens, they only carried out demonstrations and did not storm the police station, even if the police station defense is weak now, they only shouted slogans at the gate of the police station, and did not enter the police station.

"Holy, someone came to our door to demonstrate?" An old policeman looked at the crowd of people shouting slogans at the door with some surprise, and felt that his head was a little insufficient.

"These people don't want to live, do they? Do you want us to get all these people in? ”

"Who is that guy named Garo? Who of you knows? ”

"Hey, hey, hey, what should we do, should we report this matter to the director and send someone over to disperse all these demonstrators?" “

A group of people in the police station were talking about the current situation, and they had a lot of experience in dealing with people who were demonstrating elsewhere, but they had no right to deal with people who were demonstrating in front of their doors. (To be continued.) )