A nightmare that never went away EDITORIAL 08/22/2010

A nightmare that never went away

EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 08/22/2010 Former Sen. Ninoy Aquino’s assassination was the epitome of an unresolved grisly case in which the government is suspected to have been involved in or its resources abused by its officials. Of the cases that needed closure, this one tops them all. Noynoy and the Aquino family members can be forgiven in saying that the assassination case on their father is considered a closed book, as far as they are concerned, for the incident 27 years ago may bring back painful memories. As far as the family is concerned, said a presidential sister, they anyway know who killed her father. If so, why haven’t they brought this knowledge out, especially since their mother was in the presidential office for over six years and had her intelligence network at her disposal? No proof? Mere speculation? But that is, however, where the presidential mettle on Noynoy is tested in divorcing his or his family’s personal feelings with that of a national necessity. One of the failures, or that which many Filipinos consider as failure, of the administration of his mother, Cory Aquino, was its inability to render a clearer picture on the assassination case from the one presented by the 1985 Agrava Commission that pinned the murder at the airport on former Chief of Staff Lt. Gen Fabian Ver and 26 other individuals..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100822com1.html

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