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Fil-Ams remember Ninoy Aquino on 40th year since assassination

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Don Tagala | TFC News New York

<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ve2E1MwSa2Y?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div><p>Filipino-Americans in New York gathered at the Benigno Aquino Triangle in Queens to mark the 40th anniversary of the late Philippine senator’s assassination.</p><p>Aquino&#x27;s death in 1983 at the then-Manila International Airport led to events that overthrew the 21-year-rule of then-President Ferdinand Marcos Sr., in what is known today as the EDSA People Power Revolution.</p><p>Fil-Am lawyer Lara Gregory told a crowd of Aquino supporters that it was Ninoy’s amplified voice of dissent that cost him his life.</p><p>&quot;You&#x27;d think that after being imprisoned for seven years he would decide to just stay in the United States but no, Ninoy chose to return to the Philippines,&quot; said Gregory. &quot;Why? So that he can unite the opposition.&quot;</p><p>Eric Lachica, who previously took photos of Ninoy said the staunch Martial Law critic knew the risks of returning to his homeland.</p><div><a data-ved="2ahUKEwiu7ZjStPSAAxVXUWwGHXupAv0QFnoECBQQAQ" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/20/23/ninoy-aquino-remembered-ahead-of-40th-death-anniversary" jsaction="rcuQ6b:npT2md" jscontroller="M9mgyc" jsname="qOiK6e" ping="/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/20/23/ninoy-aquino-remembered-ahead-of-40th-death-anniversary&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiu7ZjStPSAAxVXUWwGHXupAv0QFnoECBQQAQ">Ninoy Aquino remembered ahead of 40th death anniversary</a></div><p>&quot;When he announced he&#x27;s going back to the Philippines, I saw it in his face,&quot; Lachica said. &quot;He was really going to play his Jose Rizal card [and] be a martyr.&quot;</p><p>Broadway musical genius David Byrne witnessed how Filipinos revere the hero of his musical “Here Lies Love,&quot; which tells the story of the rise and fall of former first Lady Imelda Marcos.</p><div><a data-ved="2ahUKEwia5_WTtPSAAxUpTGwGHaXJCXoQFnoECBUQAQ" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/life/05/16/23/here-lies-love-cast-on-retelling-martial-law" jsaction="rcuQ6b:npT2md" jscontroller="M9mgyc" jsname="qOiK6e" ping="/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/life/05/16/23/here-lies-love-cast-on-retelling-martial-law&amp;ved=2ahUKEwia5_WTtPSAAxUpTGwGHaXJCXoQFnoECBUQAQ">&#x27;Here Lies Love&#x27; cast on retelling Martial Law</a></div><p>&quot;It’s very important that the Filipino community and in general, people in New York remember this story,&quot; he said. &quot;Because it&#x27;s being erased in the Philippines. We have to be very careful that history is not erased.&quot;</p><p>Byrne added: &quot;It&#x27;s small events like this keep that little flame of history alive.&quot;</p>

Fil-Am lawyer Lara Gregory said it was Ninoy’s amplified voice of dissent that cost him his life.