[PHILIPPINES]
Pledge of Support; I protest the Marcos Government's attempt to execute Bernabe Buscayno, Victor Corpus and Benigno Aquino. I shall make my feelings known to the Marcos Government when called upon to do so.
[PHILIPPINES]
Pledge of Support; I protest the Marcos Government's attempt to execute Bernabe Buscayno, Victor Corpus and Benigno Aquino. I shall make my feelings known to the Marcos Government when called upon to do so.
A very rare piece of Filipino ephemera: this petition was likely circulated by Filipino American activists following the Marcos regime’s sentencing of opposition leaders and military comanders to death by firing squad.
It reads: “I protest the Marcos Government’s attempt to execute Bernabe Buscayno, Victor Corpus and Benigno Aquino.” It also adds ominously, “I shall make my feelings known to the Marcos Government when called upon to do so.”
Their sentences were subsequently commuted by Marcos following international pressure, but Aquino would be assassinated less than six years later. This has to be seen as part of a long-running chain of political events: Aquino’s widow, Corazon (“Cory”), led protests against the Marcos government in the wake of her husband’s assassination and later contested the 1986 presidential election. The rigged result in Marcos’ favour spurred a revolution overthrowing his regime and Cory became the first female president of the Philippines.
