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Unforgettable: More than a million mourners turned up for Ninoy Aquino’s funeral
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September 4, 2022September 16, 2023Events, Images

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

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Editor’s Note: Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr.’s assassination upon arriving at the motherland from the United States on Aug. 21, 1983, drew widespread outrage that fanned the slow burn over the excesses of the dictatorship. These dramatic black and white photos of Ninoy Aquino’s funeral cortège were taken by the freelance photojournalist Alberto “Bullit” Marquez, who...

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...