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...democratic rights," was, to put it charitably, an understatement. A few days after the debate, the majority of a Philippine inquiry commission charged that some of Marcos' military commanders, including his close friend and top general, Fabian Ver, had been behind the murder of Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino when he returned to the islands last year. Even the State Department felt compelled to soften Reagan's remarks. Said Spokesman John Hughes: "I think there is certainly recognition on everybody's part that there are other forces working for democratic change in the Philippines...
Investigators find a high-level conspiracy in the death of Benigno Aquino...
...first with incredulity-and then with joy. After more than a year of suspense, the 54.5 million people of the Philippines had at last received an authoritative confirmation of their deepest suspicion: the military did it. Specifically, a fact-finding board appointed by President Ferdinand Marcos concluded that Benigno Aquino, the exiled opposition leader assassinated at Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983, only moments after his return to the Philippines, was not killed by Rolando Galman, the alleged Communist gunman who was identified by the military as the murderer. Instead, the board had come to another conclusion: both Aquino...
Although Loterina was unable to see the rest of the assassin, his account agreed with the testimony of eight other civilians who placed Aquino and Galman in the wrong places at the wrong times for Galman to have shot the former Senator. "These witnesses had no reason to lie," said the memo. "If at all, they should normally have testified for the military version. After all, they could expect some form of retaliation if they wronged the soldiers with whom they were in daily contact...
...central and most sensitive point for the board is the involvement of General Ver in the conspiracy. When he took the witness stand in April, Ver admitted under questioning by General Counsel Narvasa that the intelligence community was kept regularly informed of Aquino's activities in the U.S. Did that mean, Narvasa asked, that as soon as Aquino left his home in Boston on Aug. 13 en route for the Philippines, the authorities made every effort to keep track of his movements? No, said the general. But what of the cables from Philippine officials abroad describing Aquino...