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Campaign launched to find justice for all victims, whether during martial rule or the war on drugs
Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. (left) and Kian delos Santos —PHOTO FROM NINOY & CORY AQUINO FOUNDATION FB PAGE/FILE PHOTO
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August 25, 2025August 25, 2025Crime

Campaign launched to find justice for all victims, whether during martial rule or the war on drugs

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The former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. and the student Kian delos Santos were felled by bullets 34 years apart this month in starkly different circumstances, but many agree that they—along with the victims of Ferdinand Marcos Sr.’s martial rule and of Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs”—met their end in a climate of impunity. Seeing...

Unforgettable: More than a million mourners turned up for Ninoy Aquino’s funeral
PHOTOS BY ALBERTO "BULLIT" MARQUEZ
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August 21, 2025August 21, 2025History

Unforgettable: More than a million mourners turned up for Ninoy Aquino’s funeral

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Editor’s Note: Exactly 42 years after the fact, have Filipinos come closer to finding out who ordered the murder of the former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. at the airport that now bears his name?  The ranks of those who should know have thinned considerably, and knowledge of who masterminded the deed is in clear...