Word: javier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somehow, though, the fleeing man struggled to his feet and staggered across the street. By this time, other gunmen had begun to close in. Two approached from the left. Another, brandishing a .45 pistol, appeared in front of a warehouse. Javier ducked into an alley and tried to hide behind an outhouse door. But the masked killer found his prey and finished him off with a burst of gunfire...
...following the murder, the Aquino campaign released an interview that Javier had taped before his death. "Every time I move around Antique, I have to play cat and mouse with the goons of Pacificador," said the voice of the dead man. "I have to be elusive." The accused man denied any involvement. He insisted that the murder had been committed by Communist insurgents or by Javier's political enemies...
...Javier and Pacificador were longtime rivals. Javier, 43, a lawyer who studied at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and once served as provincial governor, had been an outspoken critic of President Marcos. Pacificador, 55, is an attorney who reportedly won Marcos' loyalty by purging references to bought votes from the record of the 1971 Constitutional Convention. He won his seat in the National Assembly by beating Javier in one of the most controversial campaigns of the 1984 election. On the eve of the voting, seven Javier supporters were killed during a shoot-out with Pacificador and his followers...
Sensitive to the potential damage the murder could cause, particularly during a period when the country is undergoing intense international scrutiny, the Marcos administration moved to find the guilty. The day after the killing, a constabulary officer identified by witnesses as the man who pursued Javier across the plaza was arrested. The government also promised a "swift and definitive" resolution of the 1984 incident. Welcome as those actions were, they brought little comfort to the grieving family and friends of Evelio Javier, or to the thousands of Filipinos who wonder how democracy can survive amid gangland violence...
...flung archipelago. Tentatively but with increasing signs of determination, Aquino supporters were starting to take their frustrations into the streets. Wav- ing clenched fists and chanting "Fight! Fight!," thousands of Filipinos marched in a 13-mile procession through the capital. They escorted the flag-draped coffin of Evelio Javier, 43, a regional Aquino campaign chairman who had been brutally gunned down days earlier in the province of Antique. Though far smaller in scale, the Javier funeral demonstration reminded many Filipinos of the huge outpourings of grief that followed the 1983 assassination of Aquino's husband Benigno Aquino...