"Be happy with Mom and Dad." Aquino's father, Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr., a senator who was one of the staunchest critics of former President Ferdinand Marcos, was assassinated in 1983 upon his ...

MANILA, Philippines – Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr was assassinated on August 21 ... of the small opposition during Martial Law. His assassination galvanized the opposition even more and ...

Until today, the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., the Philippine justice system has failed to identify, arrest, prosecute, and convict the mastermind of that ...

A historian writing on the assassination of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. will not want for primary source material from the period. Much of it was published as a special supplements to Mr. & Ms.

Forty-one years have passed since former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. was brazenly murdered ... to reflect on the significance of his assassination by state forces is just another ...

A scion of the country’s most prominent pro-democracy political family, he was celebrated early in his administration for stabilizing the country’s faltering economy. By Seth Mydans and ...

The 1983 assassination of Noynoy's father, Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr., set in motion events that thrust the late politician's widow, Corazon Aquino, into the presidency and brought an ...

I'm talking, of course, about the swift and terrible end of Benigno ... the assassination dispassionately, accepting the official Marcos version and taking a dim, unsympathetic view of Aquino.

(Didn’t the entire nation fight back when their family killed Benigno Aquino Jr.),” referring to the 1983 assassination of the dictator’s arch rival. A day later, a pro-Duterte crowd ...

MANILA, Philippines - Former senator Benigno 'Ninoy' Aquino Jr., was assassinated in the afternoon of August 21, 1983, at the tarmac of the Manila International Airport. His death was a pivotal ...

Forty-one years have passed since former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. was brazenly murdered at the Manila ... Filipinos the occasion to reflect on the significance of his assassination by state ...