Truth omission
Truth omission
February 25th came and went last week with only the most perfunctory references to it by the Duterte regime. Since 2017, President Rodrigo Duterte has never been to any ceremony or program commemorating the 1986 “People Power” EDSA uprising.
This year — the 36th anniversary of that moment of national greatness when some two million Filipinos overthrew the Marcos dictatorship and showed the rest of the world that a free people can prevail against tanks and helicopter gunships — this year was no different.
But if there was no change in the Duterte regime’s reluctant commemoration of it, in a departure from his and his family’s past attempts to completely ignore it, Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. chose February 25th to launch his and his teammate Sara Duterte’s biggest rally yet in the Ilocos region.
That event demonstrated not only how much support the Marcoses still enjoy in those parts despite the passing of nearly half a century, Marcos Junior’s supporters’ views on his candidacy and his father’s 20-year rule also underscored how crucially disinformation is feeding mass misunderstanding of the brutal reign of Marcos Senior, and, in the process, aiding and abetting Junior’s candidacy for President.
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