Manila: Former President Ferdinand Marcos has been blamed again for the assassination of former Senator Benigno Aquino in 1983, which paved the way for a people-backed military mutiny which forced out the former dictator and propped to power Corazon Aquino to the presidency in 1986, a local paper said.
“The masterminds were the fascist dictator Marcos and a very close relative of Cory Aquino,” Jose Maria Sison, founder of the 45-year-old Communist Party of the Philippines and its military arm, the New People's Army (CPP-NPA), told Wilson Flores, a columnist of the Philippine Star.
“General Fabian Ver [then the chief of staff] could not have coordinated the assassination plot, involving subordinate generals and colonels and several armed services, without the approval of Marcos,” said Sison, during an exclusive interview in the Netherlands where Sison has been living in exile since 1989.
“The cousin of Cory Aquino — who hated Ninoy Aquino and who was [then] one of the top cronies of Marcos — was the patron and boss of General [Romeo] Gatan,” recalled Sison, adding that Gatan was “responsible for getting [Rolando] Galman as a prop in the David Copperfield-type illusionist theatrics of the assassination plot.”
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