Assasination of Ninoy Aquino
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Yellow banners fly along Roxas Boulevard with the image of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. and the words: “Filipinos are worth dying for.”
Today, we remember that day when opposition leader Ninoy Aquino’s mission of coming home to lead a non-violent reconciliation for justice and freedom, which was greatly suppressed during the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos was abruptly aborted.
The day was August 21, 1983. With an illegal passport secured under the name ofMarcial Bonifacio –first word was from martial law and second word for Fort Bonifacio, where he was detained for nearly eight years and armed with a bullet-proof vest under a white suit, Ninoy Aquino boarded a China Airlines in Taipe on a final leg of his flight home to the Philippines after a three year exile in Boston.
Francisco Tatad described that a crowd of thousands, “led by his mother Doña Aurora and his boyhood friend and political kindred Salvador Laurel, waited in Manila International Airport to give him a hero’s welcome. But as his plane reached the terminal, a military boarding party appeared and led him out through a side door leading to the ground. Seconds later shots rang out.”
The initial shot was followed by more shots later. A short video clip from a Japanese television crew has captured the event which concluded showing a dead Ninoy lying face down on the tarmac of the Manila International Airport after the shooting.
The news block out by government controlled media left little information of the murder. But yet a crowd of thousands trooped in the house of the Aquinos at Times Street and later to Santo Domingo Church to pay their respects to the slain opposition leader.
Former Senator Vicente Paterno explains, “the lack of mention in the radio, when the world press was full of the news of what had happened. To me, this was a big reason why Metro Manila turned out in full force. They were being denied of the news, so they went to see it for themselves. They were witnesses. It was not being reported to them. They were seeing it and they were reinforcing one another in their comments. They felt outrage, indignation, and anger."
Yellow banners fly along Roxas Boulevard with the image of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. and the words: “Filipinos are worth dying for.”
Today, we remember that day when opposition leader Ninoy Aquino’s mission of coming home to lead a non-violent reconciliation for justice and freedom, which was greatly suppressed during the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos was abruptly aborted.
The day was August 21, 1983. With an illegal passport secured under the name ofMarcial Bonifacio –first word was from martial law and second word for Fort Bonifacio, where he was detained for nearly eight years and armed with a bullet-proof vest under a white suit, Ninoy Aquino boarded a China Airlines in Taipe on a final leg of his flight home to the Philippines after a three year exile in Boston.
Francisco Tatad described that a crowd of thousands, “led by his mother Doña Aurora and his boyhood friend and political kindred Salvador Laurel, waited in Manila International Airport to give him a hero’s welcome. But as his plane reached the terminal, a military boarding party appeared and led him out through a side door leading to the ground. Seconds later shots rang out.”
The initial shot was followed by more shots later. A short video clip from a Japanese television crew has captured the event which concluded showing a dead Ninoy lying face down on the tarmac of the Manila International Airport after the shooting.
The news block out by government controlled media left little information of the murder. But yet a crowd of thousands trooped in the house of the Aquinos at Times Street and later to Santo Domingo Church to pay their respects to the slain opposition leader.
Former Senator Vicente Paterno explains, “the lack of mention in the radio, when the world press was full of the news of what had happened. To me, this was a big reason why Metro Manila turned out in full force. They were being denied of the news, so they went to see it for themselves. They were witnesses. It was not being reported to them. They were seeing it and they were reinforcing one another in their comments. They felt outrage, indignation, and anger.”
Today, we remember that day when opposition leader Ninoy Aquino’s mission of coming home to lead a non-violent reconciliation for justice and freedom, which was greatly suppressed during the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos was abruptly aborted.
The day was August 21, 1983. With an illegal passport secured under the name ofMarcial Bonifacio –first word was from martial law and second word for Fort Bonifacio, where he was detained for nearly eight years and armed with a bullet-proof vest under a white suit, Ninoy Aquino boarded a China Airlines in Taipe on a final leg of his flight home to the Philippines after a three year exile in Boston.
Francisco Tatad described that a crowd of thousands, “led by his mother Doña Aurora and his boyhood friend and political kindred Salvador Laurel, waited in Manila International Airport to give him a hero’s welcome. But as his plane reached the terminal, a military boarding party appeared and led him out through a side door leading to the ground. Seconds later shots rang out.”
The initial shot was followed by more shots later. A short video clip from a Japanese television crew has captured the event which concluded showing a dead Ninoy lying face down on the tarmac of the Manila International Airport after the shooting.
The news block out by government controlled media left little information of the murder. But yet a crowd of thousands trooped in the house of the Aquinos at Times Street and later to Santo Domingo Church to pay their respects to the slain opposition leader.
Former Senator Vicente Paterno explains, “the lack of mention in the radio, when the world press was full of the news of what had happened. To me, this was a big reason why Metro Manila turned out in full force. They were being denied of the news, so they went to see it for themselves. They were witnesses. It was not being reported to them. They were seeing it and they were reinforcing one another in their comments. They felt outrage, indignation, and anger."
Yellow banners fly along Roxas Boulevard with the image of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. and the words: “Filipinos are worth dying for.”
Today, we remember that day when opposition leader Ninoy Aquino’s mission of coming home to lead a non-violent reconciliation for justice and freedom, which was greatly suppressed during the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos was abruptly aborted.
The day was August 21, 1983. With an illegal passport secured under the name ofMarcial Bonifacio –first word was from martial law and second word for Fort Bonifacio, where he was detained for nearly eight years and armed with a bullet-proof vest under a white suit, Ninoy Aquino boarded a China Airlines in Taipe on a final leg of his flight home to the Philippines after a three year exile in Boston.
Francisco Tatad described that a crowd of thousands, “led by his mother Doña Aurora and his boyhood friend and political kindred Salvador Laurel, waited in Manila International Airport to give him a hero’s welcome. But as his plane reached the terminal, a military boarding party appeared and led him out through a side door leading to the ground. Seconds later shots rang out.”
The initial shot was followed by more shots later. A short video clip from a Japanese television crew has captured the event which concluded showing a dead Ninoy lying face down on the tarmac of the Manila International Airport after the shooting.
The news block out by government controlled media left little information of the murder. But yet a crowd of thousands trooped in the house of the Aquinos at Times Street and later to Santo Domingo Church to pay their respects to the slain opposition leader.
Former Senator Vicente Paterno explains, “the lack of mention in the radio, when the world press was full of the news of what had happened. To me, this was a big reason why Metro Manila turned out in full force. They were being denied of the news, so they went to see it for themselves. They were witnesses. It was not being reported to them. They were seeing it and they were reinforcing one another in their comments. They felt outrage, indignation, and anger.”