ELEMENTARY HIGHSCHOOL
“Ex-President Benigno ‘Ninoy’ Aquino was seated in the presidential chair. One day he traveled using a helicopter and when they landed, in Ninoy’s few steps, a bang of a gun was heard. Ninoy died… Since Ferdinand Marcos was his vice, Marcos wanted to be
president.”
(Fact: Ninoy Aquino was never President. He was a senator. He was killed as he was getting off an airplane when he returned from the United States. Marcos was President when
Aquino was killed.) “Edsa revolution started when Benigno ‘Ninoy’ Aquino Jr. was assassinated ... After the goose-bumping happening, Marcos was beaten and Cory Aquino, as the new President,
led the Filipinos.”
“If there was no Edsa I, we [might encourage] abusive Presidents to do what Ferdinand Marcos did ... Now everyone knows we can do the revolution anytime to end
malversation.”
“... Itwas led by the wife of Senator Benigno ‘Ninoy’ Aquino who was then gunshot by the military member of former
President Marcos.”
(Fact: The Aquino assassination happened in 1983, two and a half years before the Edsa People
Power Revolution.) (Fact: Protests against martial law were brought into the open after the Aquino assassination. But the revolution itself started after the snap election when Marcos was
declared winner.) (Fact: Government officials have
been implicated in cases of malversation of funds since Edsa I,
the latest of which involves senators, congressmen and other public officials allegedly in cahoots
with Janet Lim-Napoles. )
“Senator Aquino was [coming] back to the Philippines to do something he should have done earlier but unfortunately, he was assassinated by some people that did it purposely or ordered by someone ... Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law and they were planning to destroy the military camps that were already built when we were being attacked by other countries and that’s when people
got pissed off.”
(Fact: Marcos was not planning to destroy military camps, as he relied on the military to prop up his
one-man rule.)
“Many innocent people, especially journalists, were put in jail and some were
killed.” (Fact: Journalists and other antigovernment people were killed, jailed or were made to disappear during martial law,
not during Edsa I.)