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“You don’t get threatened with fists but with guns.”
A fisherman who recently returned from Scarborough (Panatag) Shoal had this to say in Filipino of China Coast Guard personnel as he recounted his group’s encounter with them in the sandbank’s vicinity waters.
JR Sarmiento Hilig, 37, shared this story with INQUIRER.net on Wednesday as he boarded this vessel to receive the aid given by the Atin Ito coalition as part of its civilian resupply mission.
The Atin Ito coalition began laying down its symbolic markers at around noon in the West Philippine Sea.