NINOY AQUINO / AUGUST 21, 1983 / SAVED IN PDI ARCHIVE
Oppositionist senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. at then Manila Worldwide Airport after coming back from a 3 12 months lengthy exile in the USA.
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BACOLOD CITY — A gaggle in Negros Occidental referred to as on Filipinos to struggle for what is true and to defend the nation from international aggression as they marked the assassination of the late senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. on Wednesday, Aug. 21.
Pleasure Jarabelo, head of the Federation of City Poor (FedUp), stated they have been celebrating Ninoy Aquino Day on the precise day of the forty first anniversary of the senator’s assassination, to honor his brave sacrifice for the nation.
Aquino, she stated, demonstrated by instance “how one can be a real blooded Filipino.”
Jarabelo stated Filipinos ought to rise up in opposition to the Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs), threats to the West Philippine Sea, and people who betrayed the nation in favor of China.
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To commemorate the Ninoy Aquino Day, the FedUp members, clad in yellow shirts, attended a Mass on the Lupit Church at 6 a.m. and walked to the statue of Aquino in Bacolod Metropolis for a floral providing.
President Fredinand Marcos Jr. moved the commemoration of the Ninoy Aquino Day this 12 months to Friday, Aug. 23, “to offer for an extended weekend” for the Filipino folks.
The assassination of Aquino on his return to the Philippines sparked the EDSA Folks Energy Revolution in 1986 that led to the ouster of then president Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
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