The martial law and the people power revolution went past my early childhood memories. I don’t know much about it except for what I’ve read, and heard of different other people’s opinion on the 1973 change of political system in the country.
But
one of most popular association I know to the martial law is the man who considerably
stood in the opposition’s corner against the Marcos regime-- Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino. Whose death catapulted the nationalism of the
hundreds of perturbed Filipinos; Ninoy has placed himself a rank in the list of
the most controversial political football in the Philippine history.
Aside
from being appointed by the late president Ramon Magsaysay to act as personal
emissary to Luis Taruc, leader of the Hukbalahap (Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon)
rebel group and the credit he gathered from Taruc’s unconditional surrender; this
and some of the other things he acted for the country, Ninoy was another Filipino set to be penalized by a firing squad under the military
tribunal which Marcos created in the late '70s.
Even when the said firing squad failed to materialize, Ninoy is like any everyday man whom God has allowed suffering to happen unto for a purpose.
Even when the said firing squad failed to materialize, Ninoy is like any everyday man whom God has allowed suffering to happen unto for a purpose.
