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Container vans block the passage of vehicular traffic in the street leading to the presidential palace in Manila, Saturday 25 February 2006. Security measures have tightened as tensions ran high as Filipinos mark 20 years of freedom from the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos under a state of emergency declared to quash an alleged coup plot against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Marcos was ousted by a four-day 'people power' revolt that culminated in the former president and his family fleeing into self-imposed exile to Hawaii on February 25, 1986. (KEYSTONE/EPA/DENNIS M. SABANGAN)