Ninoy Aquino's Death: Incident Overthrowing Regime Ferdinand Marcos In Philippines

Ninoy Aquino, political opponent Ferdinand Marcos who was shot and shot at Manila International Airport, Philippines on August 21, 1983. (Philstar/Gazette Photo)

JAKARTA - No opposition figure in the Philippines stands out the most apart from Benigno 'Ninoy' Aquino in the era of Ferdinand Marcos Sr's administration. He dared to oppose a corrupt and authoritarian government. He put up a fight against Marcos' dominance.

This condition made Marcos furious. Ninoy was made into the box. Threatened with the death penalty too. However, prison did not deter Ninoy. He continued to fight until Marcos ran out of his mind. Ninoy's murder option was carried out. In fact, it became the master's weapon. Ninoy's death marked the beginning of Marcos' regime's end.

Ferdinand Marcos' leadership is often seen as the Islamic phase in the history of the Philippines. The president of the Philippines in the 1965-1986 era almost bought up all bad images. He is known as a manipulative, repressive, and corrupt leader.

Empathy to the suffering of the Filipino people is often questioned. Marcos and his family were able to party luxuriously in the midst of the Filipino people suffering. This condition led to criticism from many parties. However, anyone who joins the opposition group will soon be crushed.

Marcos did not hesitate to push back his political opponents. As a result, no one dared to fight Marcos. Everything changed when Ninoy Aquino entered the political arena. The man who was born in Tarlac, November 27, 1932 became Marcos' toughest opponent.

Ninoy himself was born into a political family. This condition made Ninoy able to penetrate the world of Philippine politics, as Governor of Tarlac to senators. Instead of being busy enriching himself like Marcos, Ninoy chose to increase the lives of the Filipino people.

Ninoy's best known effort was his courage to distribute Aquino's family land to farmers and laborers. The action gained sympathy from many parties. The Filipino people began to predict Ninoy as future leader of the Philippines.

Problems arise. Not everyone likes the narrative that spreads. The narrative reached Marcos' family. The owner of power then planned to push Ninoy back from the political stage in 1972. Rezim Marcos accused him of murder and subversion. Ninoy was jailed and threatened with the death penalty.

I sat in a room that lasted in Fort Bonifacio, witnessing the military court that tried him. He was charged with having a dark weapon, killing, and committing a subversion. Even though he looked thin and weak he lost 40pound weight while in his cell alone since 1972.

He almost died fasting for 40 days. He went on a hunger strike to protest against the military court imposed on his case Ninoy at that time did not lose his smooth speech and his famous attraction he only consumed salt tablets, sodium bicarbonates, amino acids, and two glasses of water a day," wrote Tempo magazine report entitled Travel to Die (1983).

Marcos thought prisons could change Ninoy. However, prisons actually made Ninoy steady against Marcos. He becomes a lot of free time reading books. He tries to explore many thoughts of world figures. The flames of resistance are growing.

Later Marcos began to loosen his guard. Marcos tried to isolate Ninoy to the United States (US). The addition was carried out so that Ninoy got the best treatment for his heart disease in 1980.

Ninoy's heart was running smoothly. Ninoy's condition is getting healthy. He took the right time in the US. He began studying at a well-known campus in the US. He is also starting to seek support for his political struggle to undermine Marcos' regime.

Support for Ninoy poured in from students to international journalists. Those who donate to the months. Supporters from Ninoy began to expect their presence in the Philippines. Ninoy also felt the same desire.

Ninoy wants to bother Marcos in the 1984 Philippine Election. This condition made him return to the Philippines immediately. He also collaborated with several foreign journalists to the Philippines on August 21, 1983. The goal is for security.

Marcos' government is considered not to dare to kill him because there are journalists. That view is in fact wrong. Ninoy's arrival at Manila International Airport (now: Ninoy Aquino International Airport) was greeted by dozens of uniformed officers, and 200 plainclothes.

They were scattered in various places, from the waiting room to the airport terrace. Several officers then came and took Ninoy to a quiet place at the airport. The shooting ensued. This condition angered the Filipino people to Marcos.

They believe Marcos is the mastermind behind Ninoy's death. As a result, the turmoil against Marcos has surfaced everywhere. The wife of Ninoy, Corazon Aquino, stepped in to lead the opposition group to overthrow Marcos.

The study then only succeeded in 1986. Marcos and his repressive government fell. Marcos and his family fled to Hawaii along with the money from his corruption. Cory also became the new President of the Philippines from 1986-1992.

When Monday afternoon the bodies were brought back from Tarlac to Manila, several women fainted holding back grief. The streets between Tarlac and Manila were jammed. An ABC reporter said: I remember Jakarta 1966 Tritura demonstrations (three people demand). But a riot is unlikely.

The 'Juanda Aquino sendiri, Corazon 'Cory' Cojuangoo, the most important beautiful daughter of the Tarlac province, does not want this: by pursuing violence, we reject Ninoy's own wishes. However, at Ramkhaeng University, the students burned Marcos' statue. They all violated the panel discussion with the theme Crisis Politics in the Philippines. Soldiers are indeed alerted throughout the city, especially around campuses, "written on the Tempo magazine page entitledMarcos, They started stabbing (1983).