MANILA, Philippines – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., whose father and family once ruled over the Philippines for over two decades, said he was “one with the nation in remembering” the EDSA People Power Revolution.
Seeing the tens of thousands gathered in the streets against Marcos Sr., more and more military units started defecting from February 24 to 25, 1986, until Marcos Sr. and his family – including Marcos Jr. – finally left Malacañang, which had become their dwelling for over two decades. Amnesty International estimates that over 70,000 people were imprisoned and 34,000 tortured during those years, while 3,240 were killed from 1972 to 1981. The Marcos clan also plundered the country’s coffers during this period, with estimates that reach up to $10 billion. The clan, with Marcos Jr. as executor of their late father’s estate, still owes up to P203 billion in estate taxes, although they have contested this as not yet final even if it is.
“It’s not been enough because the political forces opposing my father, let us remember, his government fell. They won. That side of the political aisle has been dominant since 1986,” he said then.
BALIK NYO LAHAT NG NINAKAW NYO
Kjht kailan hnd yan mangyari mag ask siya sorry ngyn pa Mindset noon wala p siya sa position ngyn pa kaya ...?
But you sabotage the holiday by making a last-minute change and spending the weekend in Ilocos. Isaksak mo sa baga mo yang reconciliation mong hilaw! Isauli mo nga yong mga ninakaw ninyo! MarcosMagnanakaw EDSA37
Soli mo na rin. Maldita ka.