On Aquino’s 39th death anniversary—the first to be commemorated under a Marcos presidency—his supporters vowed to keep his legacy burning even with the constant threat of disinformation and historical distortion.
“Ninoy Aquino was not a saint,” Archbishop Socrates Villegas said during his commemorative Mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Dagupan. “But there was something great in him and that is why we pray for his soul.”
Simple ceremonies to commemorate Aquino’s death anniversary were held on Sunday morning in front of his monument at the municipal quadrangle of Concepcion, his hometown, where Aquino served as mayor before he became governor of the province. At the height of the campaign for the May elections, Ninoy’s statue in Tarlac City’s Plazuela was covered by a tent and a tarpaulin during the grand rally on April 3 of the UniTeam tandem of then candidates Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Sara Duterte.Former President Rodrigo Duterte issued statements for the holiday from 2018 to 2021, based on a search of the Office of the Press Secretary website.
In November 2017, Rodrigo Duterte issued an executive order integrating the functions of the commission with the National Historical Commission of the Philippines.At Bantayog ng mga Bayani, martial law survivors called on Filipinos to resurrect not the specter of “Apo Lakay”—the moniker for Marcos Sr. by his supporters—but Aquino’s spirit instead.
But even more so, she was “extremely worried that what I had personally seen that day would just be distorted by fake news,” she told the Inquirer. 1969–Marcos wins a second term amid accusations of vote-buying and intimidation. But this new term beginning in January 1970 would be rocked by such episodes as the First Quarter Storm protest movement that year and the Plaza Miranda bombing of Aug. 21, 1971.
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