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(Cory Aquino and Son Noynoy)
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The PNP/SAF commandos were retreating after an operation that took out terrorist bomb maker Marwan. Left in an open corn field in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, the police commandos were easy targets for the Muslim attackers.
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Why were the PNP/SAF commandos left vulnerable? A survivor said their officers radioed for reinforcement and rescue from then President Noynoy Aquino and senior AFP officials who were with him in nearby Zamboanga. Noynoy flew to Zamboanga to wait for the head of Marwan did not give the order to send in more soldiers to reinforce the beleaguered Special Action Force. As a consequence of Noynoy's criminal neglect, 44 SAF commandoes met their death at the hands of the Muslim band that butchered them even as their hands were raised in surrender. Mamasapano became known as Black Sunday.
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This is the grievous sin of the son. Let us now go to the Mendiola massacre of January 22, 1987. This grim chapter in our nation's history happened less than a year after the February 1986 People Power Revolution that swept Cory Aquino to power. 
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While no one can claim it was President Cory Aquino who ordered the Capital Regional Command security forces to fire and kill 12 protesting famers, the CAPCOM was directly under the Office of the President.
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Let us recount the circumstances and events that led to the Mendiola massacre. The farmers had been camped eight days and seven nights at the then-Ministry of Agrarian Reform to protest the lack of genuine land reform. Realizing their grievances were not being addressed by the Cory government, the famers inflamed by the fiery rhetoric of militant leader Jaime Tadeo, called for a march to Malacanang.
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At the Quezon Memorial Circle, the farmers were joined by the Kilusang Mayo Uno, and the League of Filipino Students. This was the group violently dispersed by a fusillade from the CAPCOM state security forces who had launched Oplan "God Save the Queen". The Queen of course meant Cory Aquino whose followers were fancying her for sainthood.
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Compare the farmer casualties who were only at the Mendiola bridge to the leftist mob who were already storming the gates of Malacanang where Marcos told the Presidential Security Guards to hold their fire during the February 1896 "people power revolution".
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<b>Sources</b>
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Two massacres, Back Channel by <a href="https://manilastandard.net/opinion/columns/back-channel-by-alejandro-del-rosario/276803/two-massacres.html" class="news_link" title="Source" target="_blank">Alejandro Del Rosario</a>, October 1, 2018, Manila Standard
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Mamasapano is to the son, Noynoy as Mendiola is to the mother, Cory