VERA Files
A Facebook (FB) post claimed that former president Ferdinand Marcos ordered soldiers to “disperse the crowd at EDSA without shooting them” because he did not want to hurt Filipinos. This needs context.
According to the Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission, there were 11,103 people who suffered under the Marcos regime and eligible to receive compensation from the P10-billion fund forfeited from the Swiss accounts of the late dictator’s family.
Dokumentado ng Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission ang 11,103 biktima ng ang mga paglabag sa karapatang pantao sa rehimeng Marcos na itinuturing na karapat-dapat na tumanggap ng mga kompensasyon na nagmula sa P10-bilyong pondo mula sa Marcos Swiss account.
Marami ang naguluhan sa biglaang pagdeklara ng Malacanang na special (non-working) holiday ang Pebrero 24. Nalito ang mga pumapasok sa trabaho at eskwela tuwing Sabado.
Nakaukit na sa kasaysayan ng Pilipinas ang mga litrato ng EDSA People Power Revolution na kuha ng batikang photojournalist na si Bullit Marquez.
Para sa ika-21 episode ng What The F?! Podcast, binalikan ni Bullit ang kwento ng apat na araw niyang coverage noong Pebrero 1986.
EDSA, from my perspective as then editor-in-chief of the “Mosquito Press” pioneer Ang Pahayagang Malaya of Joe Burgos Jr., broke in the early afternoon of Feb. 22, 1986 when I received a phone call from Malaya’s Malacanang reporter, Butch Fernandez, who said he had heard the distinct “ting-ting-ting” of the teletype machine that receives wire-agency news feed at the Palace press room, indicating an urgent, big development.