Thirty-eight soldiers would be charged with rebellion in civilian courts, in addition to 321 colleagues indicted earlier for their brief takeover of a section of the Makati financial district on July 27, National Bureau of Investigation chief Reynaldo Wycoco said.

The mutiny swiftly fizzled out after failing to rally wider support, but the government maintains it was part of a larger plot allegedly led by opposition Senator Gregorio Honasan to unseat and possibly assassinate President Arroyo and replace her with a 15-member junta.

"Apparently when they (military authorities) conducted a headcount and processing of the (detained) soldiers, there were 38 others who were missed out (in the original indictments"," Wycoco said on ABS-CBN television.

It brought the total of soldiers detained for the mutiny to 359.

The military's inspector-general on Wednesday recommended separate court-martial proceedings against 45 military officers involved in the siege. The soldiers face life in prison if convicted in either the civilian or military courts.

Interior department Undersecretary Agnes Devanadera told ABS-CBN the government is to lodge a rebellion complaint before state prosecutors later Thursday against some civilians "who organized the people who are supposed to have gone to the coup site."

The government has filed the same complaint against Honasan as well as a former member of the cabinet of detained former Philippines president Joseph Estrada. Honasan has gone in hiding.

The Philippines' judicial system requires state prosecutors to investigate criminal complaints and decide whether to take the case to court based on the evidence presented by both the complainant and the suspect.

Devanadera refused to identify the other suspects, saying only that "these are names that have cropped up even before."

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