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Agrava reports didn’t answer question of why Ninoy Aquino was killed
"Ninoy Aquino: His Last Portrait" was rendered in pointillist style, dot per dot, by hand, by the pen, when the artist Lynett Advincula Villariba could only respond to the event unfolding in 1983 -- a million dots for the millions who joined or watched the opposition leader's funeral cortege in anger and sorrow.
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August 20, 2022September 19, 2023Education, Politics

Agrava reports didn’t answer question of why Ninoy Aquino was killed

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Editor’s note: Former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. was shot dead on Aug. 21, 1983, upon arriving from exile in the United States at the airport now named after him. Fourteen months later, a fact-finding board assigned by President Ferdinand Marcos to look into the assassination submitted two reports—one by its chair and the other...

‘Project Gunita’: safekeeping pages of the Marcos regime’s history
'MOSQUITO PRESS' Issues of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Ang Pahayagang Malaya and The Manila Times during the Feb. 7, 1986 snap presidential elections, the People Power uprising. —PHOTO BY KARL PATRICK SUYAT
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July 20, 2022September 16, 2023Education, Politics

‘Project Gunita’: safekeeping pages of the Marcos regime’s history

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On the night of Election Day on May 9, when Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was on the way to winning the presidential race according to the count of the Commission on Elections, one thought came into my mind: the martial law files. Why? Simple. He is the son and namesake of the ousted dictator Ferdinand E....