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The convicts filed an appeal to have their sentences reduced after 22 years, claiming that the assassination was ordered by Marcos's crony and business partner (and Corazon Aquino's estranged cousin) Danding Cojuangco. The Supreme Court ruled that it did not qualify as newly found evidence.
- Benigno Aquino Jr., Rolando Galman
- Benigno Aquino Jr.
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.
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...
- William Chapman
Aug 26, 2018 · Three days later, on Aug. 24, 1983, President Ferdinand Marcos created a fact-finding committee chaired by then CJ Enrique Fernando to investigate the killing. On Aug. 21, 1983, Ninoy Aquino was murdered in broad daylight at the tarmac of Manila International Airport.
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Aug 20, 2012 · For almost three decades, a common answer perpetuated by media and through word-of-mouth has been that Ninoy’s death was orchestrated by his political archnemisis—President Ferdinand Marcos. However, the assertion that Marcos was behind Ninoy’s killing is a categorical falsehood.
Marcos had created a succession of fact-finding bodies, patterned after the Warren Commission that investigated the assassination in 1963 of President John F. Kennedy, to probe deeper into the Aquino murder.
Aug 23, 2019 · Three weeks after Ninoy Aquino was shot and killed upon his arrival in Manila on Aug. 21, 1983, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) circulated a secret report titled “Aquino’s Assassination: Implications for Stability in the Philippines.”
