Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino
Maybe you
saw a face of a person in our 500 peso bill. I would never ask if you know that
person already because I know that you know him. He is the much known Benigno
Aquino or simply “Ninoy”, he was
proclaimed as a hero of our country for fighting the Marcos government and
because of that he got himself into danger and on the date August 21, 1983, he
was assassinate at the airport (NAIA) by Ronaldo Galman and soon he was killed
by the soldiers who escort Ninoy from the airport. And until now this case is
still unclosed but the Filipino people accused President Marcos which resulted
to EDSA revolution. In this blog I am going to talk all about a hero on mid 70s
and 80s.
Ninoy Aquino
was born on November 27, 1932 at the province of Tarlac, to a prominent family.
He was a grandson of a General and a son of a Philippine Senator. The name
Ninoy Aquino stood early at the age of 17, he was sent by the Manila Times
newspaper to report from the war between North and South Korea which was joined
by the China and America.
At the age
of 22 he became the youngest mayor in his home-town Concepcion. After six years
he became the Governor of Tarlac. In 1967 Aquino once again made a history for
being the youngest elected senator of the Philippines. Meanwhile he married
Corazon Cojuanco, with whom he eventually raised five children.
With his brilliant mind
and great ambition, he became the leading candidate for the presidency when
President Marcos has decided to leave the palace after completing the maximum
of two terms on 1973. Aquino’s ambition to be a president was postponed when
Marcos decided to declare the state of emergency in which military authorities
are given temporary rule or “Martial Law”. At the same time Marcos dissolved
the constitution, claiming supreme power and jailing his political opponents,
including Aquino. Aquino
was charged with murder, subversion, and illegal possession of firearms.
Although he denied the charges, Aquino was found guilty and was convicted by a
military tribunal, or military court, and spent over seven years in prison.
When he was prisoned, the government tries to bring down the morale and ability
to think by losing his appetite. In 1980 he was allowed to undergo an operation
in the United States for a heart bypass operation. He returned to the
Philippine on 1983. Upon arriving in the Manila airport he was shot and killed.
Marcos and the military stated that a lone gunman who had been hired by the
Communist Party had carried out the assassination and no military personnel were
involved in that particular incident.After that incident, Marcos lost the trust
of his people; the Philippine economy also fell apart. By 1985 the nation was
in political and economic chaos, with Marcos under attack by the press and by
the strengthened political opposition, which did well in elections.In December
1985 the court proclaimed that General Ver and the others charged with Aquino's
murder were not guilty. Marcos promptly returned Ver to his former position.
Popular unrest with Marcos's rule grew steadily, however. Within weeks a
political movement formed around Aquino's widow, Corazon. She was elected
president of the Philippines in 1986, unseating Marcos.
Years
after Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino and Corazon “Cory” Aquino’s son Benigno “Noynoy”
Aquino III wins the presidency election on May 2010 and proclaimed as a
president of the Republic of the Philippines on June 2010.
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---June Rey A. Cortez
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