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Aug 21, 2022 · After almost a year into its probe, the Agrava Board submitted its reports to Marcos in October 1984. The five-member panel was unanimous in rejecting the version blaming Galman for Aquino’s murder, concluding instead that the assassination was the result of a military conspiracy.
Aug 20, 2012 · Marcos didn’t order Ninoy’s assassination. Amid the annual patriotic fanfare in celebration of the heroic legacy of Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. looms the dark question that has lingered in the back of our national consciousness for 29 years now: “Who was really behind the assassination of Ninoy?”. For almost three decades, a ...
Aug 21, 2017 · He’s dead out there,” a woman cries out. These are the voices Time Magazine correspondent Sandra Burton captured on her microcassette recorder on the afternoon of Aug. 21, 1983, right after China Airlines Flight 811 carrying former Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. landed at the then Manila International Airport.
Although many, including the Aquino family, maintain that Marcos ordered Aquino's assassination, this was never definitively proven. An official government investigation ordered by Marcos shortly after the assassination led to murder charges against 25 military personnel and one civilian, all of whom were acquitted by the Sandiganbayan (special ...
Aug 23, 1983 · August 23, 1983 at 1:00 a.m. EDT. MANILA, Aug. 22, 1983 -- President Ferdinand Marcos said tonight that the assassin of his longtime rival Benigno Aquino Jr. was a "professional killer" who...
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Aug 20, 2012 · Follow us. Manila: Former President Ferdinand Marcos has been blamed again for the assassination of former Senator Benigno Aquino in 1983, which paved the way for a people-backed military mutiny ...
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The Aquino assassination shocked the whole nation and triggered the 1986 People Power military-led civilian uprising that catapulted Aquino’s wife, Corazon Aquino, to the presidency. As a martyr, Aquino became the focus of popular indignation against the corrupt Marcos regime, a more formidable opponent in death than in life.
