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Lim Seng, alias “Gan Suo So,” is a Chinese drug Lord and member of the Golden Triangle drug syndicate. Lim Seng owned a restaurant, a printing press, mining interests, and ran other legitimate businesses to cover his illegal activities. In 1960s, Lim Seng, dove into the heroin business. Lim Seng sourced the raw material for his drug business from the Golden Triangle. Usually, raw materials of making heroin is delivered to his suite in the Manila Hotel. His labs were located in rented mansions in Caloocan and other areas in Metro Manila, where morphine was processed and refined into high-grade powdery No. 4 heroin. Lim Seng was said to produce about 100 kilograms of heroin a month, 90 percent of which was exported to Thailand, Singapore and the US West Coast. Lim Seng allegedly supplied 10 percent of America’s heroin. He quickly became the Walter White of Manila heroin production. Hes heroin production helped feed a burgeoning heroin addiction among Manila students, leading to a seminal 1972 anti-drug law. On Sept. 27, 1972, a few days after the declaration of Martial Law, he was arrested and found in his possession Three million pesos worth of heroin seized from his labs in Caloocan and other parts of Manila. It was used as evidence in a case against Lim Seng, built by the newly formed Constabulary Anti-Narcotics Unit headed by 1Lt. Reynaldo Berroya, and 1Lt. Saturnino Domingo, with assistance and training from the then US Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, better known to us today as the US Drug Enforcement Agency or D.E.A.., This historic operation was known as, “Oplan Dama de Noche.” Lim Seng pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to life imprisonment on October 18, 1972. But the newly established martial law government made an example of him. The case was transferred to a military court, in a Presidential Decree dated 7 November 1972, President Marcos approved the sentence but increased the penalty to death by musketry, to be executed on 15 January 1973 at 6:00 am at Fort Bonifacio. President Ferdinand Marcos ordered the immediate execution in public of notorious drug lord Lim Seng, in an attempt to set an example that would serve as a deterrent against the growing drug menace. In the early morning of Jan. 15, 1973, on about 4 a.m.., Lim Seng, was led out of a military stockade in Camp Crramee. Lt. Col. Simplicio Quano read his execution order in English. During the reading of his death sentence, Lim Seng, did not appear worried, because he did not know much English, he even smile with the military surrounded him. Lim Seng only realized the gravity of his situation when Quano explained in Filipino the significance of the execution order, that Lim fully comprehended what was to take place. Later on, Lim talked to his Family. his mother, his wife, four of his five children, and his brother who have been waiting to see him from a nearby office. Lim requested that no photograph of his family be taken. At exactly 5:55 a.m,., the military convoy which escorted Lim from Camp Crramee arrived at Fort Bonifacio. The handcuffed Lim Seng went out of a black car escorted by two members of the Philippine Constabulary. Lim’s head was not shaved like those who were executed in Muntinlupa. He refused a last meal. He wore a light blue sports shirt and dark blue pants as he also refused to wear the required execution garb of black pants and shirt. At 5:57 am,., the military policemen strapped Lim Seng to a wooden post with a concrete base. He was propped up by a black strip of cloth around the chest. An AFP doctor, Lt. Col. Florentino Marpa, took his pulse and blood pressure. The check revealed that Lim’s pulse rate was rapid and his blood pressure high, betraying the stoic stance he had been showing since the execution order was read to him. After he was checked by the military doctor, the military policemen put a blindfold made of a thick black strip of cloth to cover Lim’s eyes. His legs were bound with white rope. Lt. Jose Agawin, Jr. gave the order to aim and fire, A valley of gunfire shots from eight M-1 rifles broke out and sent seven .30-calibre bullets into his chest. Lim’s head slightly jerked and remained motionless for a few seconds. Then his head slowly slumped. Lt. Col. Marpa and two military policemen approached Lim’s body to examine the body. which was kept propped up by a black strip of cloth around the chest and a white strip of cloth around the legs. Marpa, an Armed Forces of the Philippines doctor, declared the condemned man dead. At exactly 6:06 am., Marpa approached then Philippine Constabulary chief Brig. Gen. Fidel V. Ramos who in later years became the 12th President of the Republic of the Philippines, and declared Lim Seng dead. Ramos called Malacanyang on the phone and said: “It is all over.” Lim’s body was unstrapped from the post and placed on a stretcher and carried away. the Lim Seng execution was witnessed by a public of some 5,000 spectators. thousands of civilian spectators crowded the ropeline of the rifle range to glimpse the garishly publicized ceremony, while others took in the radio broadcast or news footage. if you like this video please comment your reaction and opinion.. and dont forget to subscribe!