Road to Edsa

After the assassination of Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino on August 21, 1983, things began to take a turn for the worse for the dictator about to mark his second decade in office. By 1986, the discontent and grief that had begun fermenting in the nation over an administration rife with violence and corruption had finally come to a head.


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