Ninoy slay mastermind could have been known — DOJ chief
By Pia Lee-Brago
The Philippine Star 12/01/2004

Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said yesterday the brains behind the assassination of former senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. in August 1983 could have been unmasked had he been allowed to finish the prosecution of the case while serving as Tanodbayan in 1986.

Gonzalez stressed before the Bulong Pulungan forum at the Westin Philippine Plaza that many could not find out during their lifetime the mastermind of the Aquino assassination.

He claimed knowing who ordered the killing of the former opposition leader, stressing the mastermind could have been unmasked if he were allowed to present the evidence during the prosecution of the case.

Gonzalez had moved for the reopening of the case in 1986 after the Supreme Court declared a mistrial and nullified the proceedings of the Sandiganbayan on Dec. 2, 1985 acquitting the 15 soldiers of the defunct Aviation Security Command (Avsecom) of the crime.

He told the forum that he was not able to complete the case after being suspended by the Supreme Court in a feud with magistrates of the high tribunal.

Gonzalez also maintained there is no evidence that the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos ordered the assassination of Aquino, rather someone who could gain enormous political and economic power.

"Yes, there is none (evidence). If there is one person I wanted to be indicted (it was Marcos)... I was looking for evidence against Marcos but there was none," he said.

Gonzalez said Marcos could at best have been charged with covering up the crime. "He was an accomplice," he said.

The former Iloilo lawmaker claimed he was preparing to present a witness during the prosecution in 1986 until the suspension order on him was handed down by the Supreme Court.

He claimed the witness, who was placed in a protection safehouse, was a girlfriend of a general.

Gonzalez said the witness accompanied the military official at the old Carlston Hotel in Pasay City on the eve of the assassination, where preparations for Aquino’s arrival and security arrangements were discussed.

"When I was suspended, she (witness) refused to testify. She can testify because of what she knows," Gonzalez said.

Gonzalez said the Department of Justice (DOJ) will leave the decision to reopen the 21-year old murder case to the Supreme Court.

The Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) last week sought for the reopening of the case before the high tribunal citing evidence gathered by forensic experts and an eyewitness who claimed none of the 15 soldiers convicted of the crime shot the former senator, but none other than alleged communist hit man Rolando Galman.

"They (forensic experts) came to see me. I did not want to participate in this anymore because the Public Attorney’s Office has the autonomy. I will not give my conclusion. If we are after truth and justice the case should be reopened," he said.

Gonzalez said he believed not one among the 15 soldiers convicted in the Aquino-Galman double murder case is guilty.

"They were afraid," he said. " I can assure you not all the (Avsecom soldiers) are guilty. The guilt is because they were all covering up for something."

In the same forum, Deedee Siytangco, spokesperson for the senator’s widow former President Corazon Aquino, said the country is always taken by surprise by new evidence.

"Mrs. Aquino said she is surprised that every anniversary and birthday of Ninoy there is new evidence coming out. But it is up to the Supreme Court to decide on the PAO petition (in reopening the case). If it will be reopened, so be it," she said.

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:dunno:

I heard rumors that one of Marcos's top military officers was behind the killing.

The murder was meant to set him (Marcos) up by killing Ninoy knowing that only that could change things.

They even said that most Americans know who he was.

How true is this, Aerocobra?

The firm is on the spin again, let it end!

Imelda Marcos says conspiracy possibly behind 'Ninoy' Aquino murder
01/26 11:30:39 AM

MANILA (AFP) - Imelda Marcos, widow of deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos on Tuesday filed an affidavit hinting that an opposition conspiracy was behind the murder of opposition leader Benigno Aquino in 1983.

The affidavit, filed as part of a legal attempt to reopen the Aquino murder, stated that her husband, then president Marcos, was seriously ill after a failed kidney transplant during the murder of Aquino, who was shot dead upon arrival from exile in the United States.

The killing of Aquino, popularly known as Ninoy, triggered widespread outrage that eventually resulted in a popular revolt in 1986 that ended Marcos's 20-year rule and installed Aquino's widow, Corazon as president.

The Marcos government maintained that an alleged communist hit-man Rolando Galman, shot Aquino, but in 1990, a special court convicted 15 military men tasked with escorting Aquino with the murder.

The mastermind behind the killing has never been revealed although there were widespread suspicions that Marcos ordered Aquino's death to keep him from challenging his authoritarian rule.

Imelda Marcos however denied that her husband ordered the killing, saying he had been too ill because his US doctor had not administered the right medicine during the kidney transplant on August 7, 1983.

She also said that the US embassy had assured her that there were no signs that Aquino was due to fly into the Philippines even though many journalists knew he was coming.

This could all be signs of "a deliberate effort on the part of oppositionists and opportunists to prevent the Marcos administration from securing the safe arrival of Aquino," Imelda Marcos said.

"It may have been part of the grand conspiracy to ensure the success of the assassination at the expense of the late president (Marcos)," she added in her affidavit.

However she did not say who could be behind this conspiracy.

The Marcos family fled into exile in 1986 and the former dictator died in Hawaii in 1989.

However the rest of the family has since been allowed to return and has regained a measure of political power.

The 15 military men convicted for Aquino's murder have been seeking to reopen the case, insisting that they are innocent and that new forensic evidence will uphold the Marcos position that Galman was the killer.

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The Filipino people really must know the truth...

... NO MATTER WHO CULPRIT REALLY IS.

:exactly:

Of course, Marcos was not the culprit.

She is. :demon:

If that was the case, that tells how stupid she was.

Many says some guys in his top military circle betrayed him.

Many from the military now even know who these are, but they prefer to keep silent up to this time.

Well, anyway, this may not be right timing.

So, what?

Shall we just let them die of old age :armyroleyes: and just let God hand them over to the devil and do the neverending torment on them for the betrayal they did?

That betrayal does not only mean the plot but the corruption, that deprived the "masa" what was due to them, that they committed.

Oh, well ... that could be it!

:armywink:

Some Military Officials envy the the position of VER...as what i've analyse they black mail Marcos because at that time the military officials don't agree why VER is the AFP chief of staff.. i think former Tabacco president knows the story about it and they just shut it up.

Tabacco knows what code of silence is because he was a military man and also he is so capable of knowing it. NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT.

The locked-up Airforce General is the only one that can make everything comes to light in this case if he wants to come clean. (Is he still alive?) and to clear things once and for all if he does'nt care for the Code Of Silence to reign over him.

We cannot chuck this murder case into the abyss of oblivion for the simple reason that the brains or "BIG GUNS" behind it has'nt been brought to justice yet.

"THERE IS NO JUST GOD THAT GOVERNS THE EARTH RIGHTEOUSLY BUT A GOD OF LIES THAT BEARS FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THE INNOCENT"

The people will most certainly hear the real story when the culprit dies of old age. :armyroleyes:

Nonetheless, it could be the best option for us. :armywink:

Anyway, he can't get past Satan without getting what he deserves from Satan's own merciless hands.

:demon:

Dont forget the karma that may strike his family at anytime. :exactly:

A prominent figure in Philippine politics has a comprehensive knowledge of the Aquino and Galman murders although his direct or inderect partcipation is bit sketchy as clouded by that feud and infighting within the exclusive perimeters of the dynasty.
In my view, he does'nt want to expose himself into the spotlight that could drag himself into an investigation or any forms of inquiry to re-investigate the case. There was a presumption of his person to be of unquestionable integrity and honesty being elected and catapulted to the highest office of the land.

One ponders if sleepless nights did'nt bother him being haunted by the concealing the truth that can unleash the murky barriers to achieve the real justice once and for all.

If he always maintains the code of silence, he is as guilty as the ones who have a direct hands in committing these two still unresolved murders.

"TRUTH WILL COME SOONER OR LATER'"

"AN HONEST CONSCIENCE NEEDS NO ACCUSER"

But keeping silent on this is also making it appear, ... as how the perceptions of some analysts and other civilians put it,..

... tha he is the mastermind and not Marcos or Imelda.

That perception or misconception will not wane down unless he finally muster enough integrity and courage to shed light into this divisive issue.

FOR NOW, HE CANNOT CLAIM THAT HE IS INNOCENT.

Parang patay mali Flipz. Nobody would believe that he does'nt know anything about it. At that time, he was the Vice Chief of Staff, and at the same time head of the defunct PC/INP. Even the dumbest mind can figure it out. Although one could give him the benefit of the doubt regarding direct participation, but the presumption of knowing the blueprint of the crime is highly overwhelming.

He was one of those who always has in mind that the whole thing would just disappear into the thin air. Let us hope that before his last breath he would spill the beans and the right parties will be put before the bar of justice.

:agree:

Let's pray that he will.

This might even save his own soul from being tortured in the dungeons of hell.

Sort of. :dunno:

SC asked not to re-open Aquino-Galman slay case

Posted 04:44pm (Mla time) Feb 23, 2005
By Philip Tubeza
Inquirer News Service




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SOLICITOR General Alfredo Benipayo has urged the Supreme Court not to re-open the Aquino-Galman double murder case, saying that it would not serve any purpose.

In a 26-page comment, Benipayo said the petition of the 15 soldiers, convicted for the 1983 killing of former senator Benigno Aquino Jr. and Rolando Galman, to re-open the case should be denied since they had not presented any new material evidence that would merit a new trial.

He added that the petition to re-open the case was also filed way beyond the prescribed period since it had been 13 years since their conviction became final and executory.

Benipayo said the forensic evidence or expert testimony that the convicts wanted to present “had been vigorously raised and exhaustively presented” during their trial before the Sandiganbayan in the late 1980s.


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The pitiful and hapless fall guys are suffering from the crime they did not commit...

.. while the masterminds are still at large. :bs:

Is this the justice system that we must support?

[COLOR=blue]The abovenamed solicitor general is either scared or incompetent.

He is one of those displaying an obvious failure of our justice system. The cycle of flawed and incomprehensive justice system is still rolling.

Arrogance + Incompetence + Corruption x Politics = What kind of justice??

If Erap got freed after being convicted of plunder ...

... THEN WHY MUST THESE AQUINO MURDER FALL GUYS SUFFER THIS FAR?



DOJ chief wants all 13 Ninoy killers freed
By Mike Frialde

Saturday, November 24, 2007


A day after former aviation security officer M/Sgt. Pablo Martinez, convicted for the 1983 assassination of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., was released from prison, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said that the 13 other surviving soldiers jailed for the murder should also be released.

“They have already served beyond the minimum (sentence). I would think that they are already candidates for (clemency). I have not been asked. If the President asks me, I will give my view. If they are entitled, let’s give them the benefit of the law,” Gonzalez said.

“They fall within the policies set by the President for other inmates. Why should there be a double standard for them when there is equal protection?” he pointed out.

Gonzalez also chided the Aquino family for imposing as a condition for the soldiers’ release their admission of their participation in Aquino’s slay.

“The issue here is, was there anything wrong with the pardon? You cannot keep them there forever just because they do not want to say what you want them to say. That is a violation of their human rights. All they (Aquinos) want is to hear what they want to hear. If that happens, these people will rot in jail even if they are already entitled to be released. These people have lost the best years of their lives. They have already suffered for 25 years,” Gonzalez said.

Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III refused to trade barbs with Gonzalez.

“I don’t want to engage in a verbal tussle with him because he defended my dad in some of his cases in the past during the martial law years. I hope you won’t mind, but given his advanced age and good deeds in the past, I won’t comment,” Aquino III told The STAR.

“During the times that we felt we were alone, he was one of those who never really abandoned us,” he added.

Former senator Agapito “Butz” Aquino, on the other hand, believes it is President Arroyo’s prerogative to grant pardon to the 13 remaining soldiers in detention, but said the Aquino-Galman soldiers should tell the whole truth that the military was involved and Galman was merely used.

“For whatever reason she has, it is up to her,” he said.

Malacanang did not directly comment on Gonzalez’s assertions but maintained that it is the policy of the Arroyo administration to release prisoners who have reached the age of 70.

Gonzalez said that the jailed soldiers were initially acquitted, but were convicted when the case was reopened.

As this developed, government lawyers yesterday said they are now working on pertinent documents for the release of the 13 other soldiers convicted for the Aquino assassination.

Persida Acosta, head of the Public Attorney’s Office, said her office is now in the process of collating medical records, particularly of three of the 13 soldiers who remain in jail after being sentenced to double life imprisonment.

“We are preparing the necessary documents such as medical abstracts that would facilitate the immediate release of Sergeants Arnulfo Artates and Rolando de Guzman, and A1C Felizardo Taran,” Acosta said, adding that these three soldiers have also become sickly while in prison and their cases should be treated as urgent.

But Acosta clarified that all the remaining soldiers in detention are candidates for release.

Acosta, meanwhile, said that after being freed from jail, Martinez is now resting at home.

“After he was taken to the doctor yesterday (Thursday), his children immediately brought him home,” she said.

Martinez is said to be suffering from hypertension, diabetes and ulcer. He said his health condition has worsened because there are not enough medical facilities at the national penitentiary for old and sickly inmates.

Acosta also bared a plan for Martinez to personally apologize to former President Corazon Aquino.

“I will accompany him to President Cory’s house in Quezon City. We will also be dropping by Senator Noynoy’s office at the Senate so Martinez can personally ask for forgiveness. That would be more proper, apart from the public apology he made,” Acosta said.

Acosta added she might also bring with them forensic experts to show evidence that Galman was the one who shot the late senator.

“I will also bring the result of their findings in the last three months of 2004 that it was really Galman who was the triggerman,” Acosta added.

Martinez, a former master sergeant of the defunct Aviation Security Command (AVSECOM), was released from maximum security prison on Thursday after being pardoned by President Arroyo.

Upon his release, Martinez publicly apologized to Aquino’s family and to the Filipino people, but stood firm on what he and the 13 other surviving convicted military men had claimed since their arrest: Rolando Galman killed Aquino and was in turn shot dead.

Court records showed that Martinez was under orders to kill Galman if the latter backed out at the last minute from assassinating Aquino.

Martinez’s release came days before Aquino’s 75th birthday on Nov. 27 and weeks after the grant of executive clemency to ousted President Joseph Estrada.

Both Martinez and Acosta urged the President to extend clemency to the other jailed former soldiers, who were part of what the courts ruled was a murder conspiracy. A formal request for clemency was made in August.

One of the convicts, Avsecom chief Brig. Gen. Luther Custodio died of cancer in prison in 1991, while another, Airman 1st Class Cordova Estelo, was stabbed dead by another inmate in 2005.

Convicted with Martinez on Sept. 28, 1990 were Custodio, Estelo, Capt. Romeo Bautista, 2nd Lt. Jesus Castro, and Sergeants Claro L. Lat, Arnulfo de Mesa, Filomeno Miranda, Rolando de Guzman, Ernesto Mateo, Rodolfo Desolong, Ruben Aquino and Arnulfo Artates, supposed gunman Constable Rogelio Moreno, C1C Mario Lazaga, and A1C Felizardo Taran. The Supreme Court affirmed the conviction on July 23, 1991.

No injustice

Malacañang yesterday maintained that there was no injustice in the conditional pardon granted to Martinez because he has not only reached the age of 70 but was also recommended for release by the Board of Parole and Pardons.

“What injustice? (Martinez) has been in prison for 24 years. They (Aquino murder convicts) have been in jail for a long time,” said Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Sergio Apostol.

“Let’s not talk of injustice here, this is a privilege of the President to grant pardon,” he said.

He issued the statement after Aquino’s son, Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, described the pardon as an injustice and was a way at getting back at the Aquino family for being critical of the Arroyo administration.

Apostol said there was no politics involved in the pardon of Martinez, adding that Mrs. Arroyo was not a vengeful President.

“Why would we get personal with Noynoy, he can’t even get married,” he said.

He said: “I don’t know whether it’s coincidence or not, but I think the President is not aware when she signed (the pardon).”

Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye however expressed doubt that the President was unaware that she has pardoned a convict in the Aquino assassination case because attached to the recommendation to pardon from the Department of Justice are details of the inmate and his case.

- With Paolo Romero, Aurea Calica, Rhodina Villanueva, Michael Punongbayan

http://philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=...aid=20071123139

.... AND THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT THE WORLD TO HEAR.

I have said enough of this. :dunno:

Nevertheless, ... if a convicted plunderer like Erap got freed... and never tasted prison..then...

To the authorities and the concerned persons, this is the best way to end this without stirring more questions.

Remember, even if you freed these fall guys, you still owe them a lot for jailing them for 24 years.... just because they can't defend themselves with influence and money.

Absurd, says Noynoy on claim Danding was mastermind


By Carla Gomez, Michael Lim Ubac
Inquirer
Last updated 02:14am (Mla time) 11/24/2007

MANILA, Philippines -- The son and namesake of Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. thinks it is absurd that his uncle, tycoon Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco, is again being accused of masterminding his father's assassination in 1983.

The accusation, first made in 2003, is even more absurd today, Sen. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III said Friday on the phone. He said it appeared that someone was creating a false trail to lay the blame on Cojuangco, a first cousin of his mother, former President Corazon Aquino.

The senator was reacting to the claim of ex-soldier Pablo Martinez, newly pardoned and released from a life sentence for the Aquino assassination, that it was Cojuangco who had ordered it.

Martinez, in an interview aired Thursday night over ABS-CBN, said he had spoken with Cojuangco's men involved in the assassination, and that the men had told him that Cojuangco gave them the order.

"Ang sabi ko sa kanila kasi, ang tanong ko sa kanila, 'Kanino ba kayo kumuha ng order? Kaninong order ba siya?' (I told them, I asked them, 'Where did you get your order? Whose order was it?)" Martinez said in the interview.

He said the men replied: "Si Danding." He added that he did not hear Cojuangco issue the order, and that the men's statement was the only link to the tycoon that he knew about.

Cojuangco is in Australia and could not be reached for comment. His son, Pangasinan Rep. Mark Cojuangco, said Martinez's claim was "completely false."

Estelito Mendoza, one of Cojuangco's lawyers, said he had no knowledge of the matter and no authority to talk about it.

Good relationship
"The claim of Martinez is an absurdity. It is just as absurd as the claim that [the late dictator] Ferdinand Marcos chose my father to be his successor," Noynoy Aquino said.

He said the accusation against Cojuangco was being interspersed with bits of truth to sound convincing, but he did not believe it.

"Why would my uncle want to have my father killed [when] he was not at the pinnacle of power then?" he said, adding:

"My father and my uncle had a good relationship. My family split ways with my uncle in 1965 only because he sided with Marcos. But that was the extent of it.

"If one was a criminal, would one lay down a trail that would lead to himself?

"It was absurd then, and it is absurd now. If Martinez still claims [Rolando] Galman was the gunman, why should we believe him?"

Martinez and 15 other soldiers were meted out life terms in 1990 for the double murder of Ninoy Aquino and Galman, an alleged communist hit man sent to kill the former senator and Marcos archenemy who was returning from exile in the United States.

Two of the 16 have since died of natural causes.

For years, former President Aquino and her grown children have rejected the jailed soldiers' claim that it was Galman who shot Ninoy Aquino, and that Cojuangco masterminded the assassination.

Martinez, a former master sergeant, was granted a conditional pardon by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on grounds of his advanced age and good behavior. He was released from prison on Thursday.

On that same day, Senator Aquino said the pardon might have been Malacañang's way of getting back at his family for its critical stance against the Arroyo administration.

On Friday, Senator Aquino said that the people behind his father's assassination were fine-tuning their story every year to implicate others.

He said it also appeared that someone was taking care of the families of those convicted of his father's murder.

Convenient scapegoat
He added that Cojuangco was "a convenient scapegoat, perhaps because there was infighting within the Marcos clique then."

The senator said Ms Arroyo's grant of executive clemency to Martinez was adding further insult to injury to his family.

He said that if one was to believe the claim that Ms Arroyo may not have been aware of whom she was pardoning, "it was a failure on the part of her legal advisers."

There appears to be no legal remedy to reverse the pardon, unless Ms Arroyo herself does it, the senator said.

"My family is not the sole victim of such an action. The entire Philippines is a victim of wrong governance," he said.

But Presidential Legal Counsel Sergio Apostol protested the idea that pardoning Martinez was a form of injustice:

"Injustice? [The 16 ex-soldiers] have been imprisoned for 24 years. In six years, the others can be freed. And then Martinez is also sickly. He has hypertension, diabetes. Let's not talk of injustice. It's the privilege of the President to grant [pardon]. No politics here [but] humanitarian reasons."

Apostol also took offense at Senator Aquino's statement the other day--that it was ironic that Malacañang pardoned Martinez just as his family was preparing to mark his father's birthday on Nov. 27.

"Bakit siya pepersonalin? Si Noynoy, di nga siya marunong mag-asawa, pepersonalin pa (Why would we single him out? Noynoy doesn't even know how to marry, and we'd single him out)?" Apostol said before breaking out in laughter.

"I don't know if it's coincidence or not, but I think the President is not aware [of that]," he added.

In another interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer (parent company of INQUIRER.net), Senator Aquino said Martinez's claim about Cojuangco did not necessarily become believable now that the prisoner had become a free man.

Preposterous
The senator said Martinez first aired the accusation in a media interview in 2003, where, he said, the man made preposterous claims, including the statement that Cojuangco and other Marcos cronies at the time felt threatened because of the dictator's supposed plan to name Ninoy Aquino as his successor.

"[Cojuangco] and my dad were really close before 1965. Even afterwards, they were not radical enemies," the senator recalled.

"From the start, we have said we are for reconciliation. But it should have justice," he said.

The senator also said he caught a TV interview of Martinez after his pardon, and noted the ex-soldier's pause when he asked former President Aquino's forgiveness for his sin.

"Parang iniisip pa niya kung ano ang kasalanan niya (It was like he was wondering what his sin was)," the senator said.

Prescription
Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said it was up to the court to determine if Martinez's tagging of Cojuangco could be considered "newly discovered evidence" to warrant the reopening of the case.

But Gonzalez said it was suspicious that Martinez was only speaking about it now, and pointed out that the statement appeared to be an "afterthought."

He added that the case had prescribed, or had gone beyond the period that allowed legal action.

Gonzalez also said the Aquino-Galman convicts had suffered enough, and that the Aquinos should not take offense at Martinez's liberty.

"I don't think they should be offended. After all, these [convicts] suffered in jail for 25 years. They lost the best years of their lives," he said.

With reports from Dona Z. Pazzibugan, Leila B. Salaverria and Elizabeth Sanchez-Lacson

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadl...ticle_id=102821



Danding son says Martinez claim a lie

By Leila Salaverria
Inquirer
Last updated 02:15am (Mla time) 11/24/2007

MANILA, Philippines -- The son of businessman Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco on Friday denied the claim of newly pardoned convict Pablo Martinez that his father was behind the assassination of Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr.

"I condemn the implications, the accusations being made, as completely false. I want to state categorically that they are not true," Pangasinan Rep. Mark Cojuangco said in a phone interview.

Cojuangco said his father was in Australia, and that he had not spoken to the latter yet.

Meeting with Mitra
He said he personally knew that his father did not even know that Aquino was coming home from the United States on that fateful day on Aug. 21, 1983, which he said he remembered clearly because it "sent chills up and down my spine."

The lawmaker recalled that his father was then meeting with Ramon Mitra (since deceased) and talking about cattle, and Mitra subsequently excused himself, saying he was going to meet Aquino at the airport.

"That's the only time Dad knew Ninoy was arriving... I myself was a witness that Dad did not know about his arrival," the lawmaker said.

He said he could not imagine Martinez's motive for claiming that his father was behind the Aquino assassination, but added that he wanted the public and the media to know that the claim was false.

Cojuangco also said the accusation was affecting his family, including his children.

"I'm sick and tired of this... It's an out and out fabrication," he said.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadl...ticle_id=102822

The only thing that is absurd is that the case was not solved even during the time of Cory Aquino and Fidel Ramos.

This was the time that the case had the greatest chance of getting solved ... if they really wanted it solved. :dunno:

Just my view though.

The old pardoned convict has'nt spilled the beans accurately. Although he might have been right in his allegations that Mr. Cojuanco was involved in the murder, the latter was not the biggest of the fish that should come up to light. He could not have missed his big "boss"if what he devulged was the "truth"that was expected to crop up one day. His allegations might be hearsay or politically motivated.

I firmly believe that Marcos had nothing to do with Ninoy's assassination. Marcos even suspected it was Imelda but was not. Marcos threw the phone on Imelda because he suspected it was her. Danding had no hand either. It was purely the work of a small military clique. Now who among them were in power during the time when it all happened.

BTW, Marcos did not touch the 'pondo' of the American economic and military assistance and the payment of rental for the bases. I am sure of it. When bullied, harrassed, prayerful, forgiving, innocent and saintly Cory took over, they were all gone. Hundreds of milions of american dollars. Now who among the traditional politicos were allegedly criminally liable for its loss? :headbang:

Nevertheless, Sgt. Martinez' claim (albeit double hearsay) should be worth looking into. He is, after all, a living link to the masterminds. The abrupt dismissal by people who have not been directly involved in any investigation is all sound and fury, but based on absolutely nothing.

The suspects other than Danding are known to many.

FVR's name came out of the many stories and rumors. Killing Ninoy might have been his plan to ruin Marcos and use the controversy to catapult him quickly.

Ninoy was a sure winner after Marcos. The culprits couldnt let that happen. They found a suiting plan in murdering him and putting the blame on Marcos.

Look at FVR today. He is still trying to keep his grip on the govenrment by influencing it as much as possible...

... AS IF HE WAS PROTECTING SOMETHING.... OR SCARED OF SOMETHING HIS DETRACTORS WOULD DO WHEN THEY GET THE OPPORTUNITY.

He helped kicked out Erap when the latter was investigating his PEA-Amari scam.

Look at the series of top boss in the military after Marcos. These were all his dogs.

There maybe is a link between his influence and why the war isn't stopping.

This is plunder to the dirtiest and biggest scope ever if you are seeing what i am seeing.

Just my analysis though. A part of the many angles that we are all trying to look at.

Everybody was petrified with Ninoy's 'ang pumatay ng dahil sa iyo' (national anthem). I was not. Ninoy ako eh! ninoy!ninoy! ninoy! you can take a glimpse of my face among the hundreds of thousands of activists taken by a photographer on an helicopter. Front pages, sir flipzi young litrato ko. :lollol:

Indeed, it is quite interesting to consider the allegations of Sgt. Martinez. However, it is also quite intriguing on why it took him several years to name one of the alleged conspirators just in time that the crime had already reached it's prescriptive period.

He could have known of a bigger fish than Danding Cojuanco. If he's got the full information or details of his (Sgt. Martinez) allegations, there still exist some important figures of conspirators whom he should have never missed. Well, his pointing finger might have been parried out to the long and farther direction for the good and security of his life.

Everybody is more than eager to see how Sgt. Martinez could prove his allegations on the involvement of Mr. Cojuanco, otherwise, he will find himself wading in troubled waters for making unproven accusations.

The trail of the crime does not end with Martinez.

The people who know more are the people who kidnapped Galman and later murdered and burried his girls in a Cojuangco land.

Another angle nonetheless, is that Dangding was being molded as our fall guy.

If not Danding then the masterminds can never be smaller than Danding. These people are those who can control a sizable faction of the military. I think you now know as well the people your minds are telling you to focus on.

Then again, it's just one of the many angles.

As per clues, old stories, rumors and latest revelations from Martinez, the probable suspect are Danding and Fidel Ramos.

If not Danding then it could be Ramos.

Or both connived to kill Ninoy and put the blame on Marcos, which they perceived would be the prime suspect when Ninoy is murdered.

Plain and simple.

A perfect crime.

Or is it?

Just my view though. :dunno:

With these two personalities to have been involved in that double murder case, is not a wild speculation. It is a strong prima facie perception even much stronger than Imelda and Fabian Ver.

During those days in-between the murder, there was a rift between Ramos and Ver. The former was let down and was very much disappointed with Marcos for keeping Ver overstay as AFP Chief, and from then on, there were obvious acts of rocking the boat that ultimately tossed the captain overboard and the saga of intrigues started, and ultimately the downful of Marcos and Ver.

So, it does'nt need a Sherlock Holmes to figure out "whodunnit".

Fmr TOPP Awardee 82'PNP,

I don't believe that Tabako had anything to do with Ninoy's murder. Otherwise, why did Cory annoint him as her manok in the 1992 presidential elections over Mitra?

If Ramos really was the mastermind, Makoy and Ver(dugo) would have offered Tabako's head to appease the nation's wrath and take the heat off them.

It's not fairly convincing that tabako has nothing to do with the murders. Although not necessarily alluding him him to the role of a mastermind, nobody could be convinced that he never knew about the plot. We must remember that he was the No. 2 figure of the AFP at that time and nobody is prepared to accept that his intelligence was totally blurred with his eyes prickled with needles just to be or to make him totally blind and innocent of the plot.

There was a massive cover-up of of that twin murder case that lead to the conviction of a bunch of tiny fry. The principal actors behind the scene got away with it. Some are dead, some are still scot free and even had successfully reached the pinnacle of prominence as a consequence of that fateful saga of the twin murders.

One should come to think that Cory Aquino as a former housewife is not capable of sizing up who-is-who were really responsible for the murders of her husband. Her intelligence capabilities barred her from the overwhelming deceits by the intelligent dinnossaurs who should have been link to the murders. And because of that ignorance and without due care and discretion, she performed a lap dance with one of them.

How come when they didnt even know Tabako and John Enrile were cooking something?

And if Cory compromised FVR, FVR would be forced to drag his cohorts into the open.

Now, why would Cory let out something that might bring shame to the family?

The safest way?

BLAME IT ALL ON MARCOS !!!!!!!!

So the family looks good and Ninoy a martyr under a dictator's ruthlessness.

Greetings Everyone am here in Philippines writing a book. This is sort of Off Topic but am interested in any information on this topic.

You'll find interesting articles in Google.

Use these search keys;

"who killed Ninoy"

"who really killed Ninoy"


interesting links

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=a...baya_aug23_2007

This one is the best so far;

http://tapatt.org/

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There was also this theory that the reason why Imelda run for the presidency in 1998 was not to really win but to divide the votes for the opposition and weaken Danding's chance of winning the presidential election.

Also this forensic finding does not tell the real score.

The reason behind why the bullet penetrated that way is that Ninoy raised his head apparently to see his direction and check the people waiting for him nearby and he was trying to align his eyesight to the lenses he was wearing at that time.

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Tell us when you're done with the book.

Hope we can buy it half the prize.... or for free. :armycheers:

We can only surmise that the forensic evidence was accurate and flawless if the coroner-on-inquest was from a neutral source. In a case clouded with massive cover-ups and controversies, no one can expect honest-to-goodness performance from the medico-legal experts under immense political pressure. Hence, it produced corrupted results.

I agree. Those who are sympathetic to Ninoy and the Aquino's and Cojuangco's would do all they can to twist it all into putting all the blame on Marcos.

On the other hand, those who are sympathetic to Marcos would try to put all the blame on Marcos' enemies and the other factions within Marcos' administration then.

Who's the neutral side?

I am sure PDFF is one of those.

Desert,


Good luck in your book writing. Don't believe the canard that Galman and Ninoy Aquino were of the same height. Ninoy was about half a foot taller than Galman!

Rolando Galman was only 5'4" and Ninoy Aquino was 5'10". No way could the former shot the latter. The trajectory of the bullet clearly was going down as evidenced by the entry wound at the back of the head and the exit wound on the chin.

There was a common joke that only Galman grew from being 5'4" to 5'10" after he had been shot dead!

Only a person who was standing behind and above Ninoy could have shot him. Ninoy was shot while he was still walking down the emergency stairs out of the aircraft tube with his military escorts. The persons behind immediately behind him were Sgts. Lat and Moreno (or was it Miranda?).

The Avsecom made this preposterous claim that Ninoy was shot by a .357 Magnum which was in Galman's possession. Everyone knows that a .357 Magnum's bullet fragments into several pieces like a dum-dum bullet. If Ninoy was shot by a Magnum, at least half of his face would have disappeared but pictures show his face was mercifully whole. He could have been only shot with a .45 or a .38 either by Lat or Moreno.

You can check the old issues of Mr. & Mrs. They contain most of the details of Ninoy's assassination.