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The Plaza Miranda bombing (Filipino: Pambobomba sa Liwasang Miranda) occurred during a political rally of the Liberal Party at Plaza Miranda, Quiapo district, Manila, the Philippines on August 21, 1971. It caused nine deaths and injured 95 others, including many prominent Liberal Party politicians.
Aug 26, 2021 · Fifty years ago, on the night of Aug. 21, 1971, two grenades were lobbed at a Liberal Party rally at Manila’s iconic Plaza Miranda, killing nine people and nearly wiping out the then-opposition’s top guns.
Aug 19, 2022 · Former Senator Jovito Salonga and other Liberal Party senatorial bets who were injured during the 1971 Plaza Miranda bombing. Former ranking security officials through the years have consistently belied the denials made by Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chair Jose Maria "Joma" Sison that he masterminded the Aug. 21, 1971 ...
Oct 11, 2022 · The breakthrough in the case occurred when Ariel Almendral, a former New People’s Army (NPA) cadre, and Victor Corpus, an instructor at the Philippine Military Academy who defected to the NPA, confided in the 1980s to Sen. Jovito Salonga, one of those who were wounded in the bombing, that they were witnesses to the NPA trial of a certain ...
Aug 21, 2021 · Among the wounded: Jovito Salonga, who would become the post-Edsa’s first Senate president despite his serious injuries; LP president Gerardo Roxas; Senators Eddie Ilarde and Eva Estrada Kalaw.
Four grenades were hurled at the stage of the Liberal Party's grand "miting de avance", killing 9 and wounding 95 others. Many of the Party's leaders and senatorial candidates were seriously injured. The bombing was immediately blamed on President Ferdinand Marcos, and public opinion believed so.
Aug 22, 2014 · On Aug. 21, 1971, bombs exploded during a Liberal Party rally at Plaza Miranda in Quiapo, Manila. Nine were killed while many were injured, including senatorial candidates Jovito Salonga, John Osmeña, Eddie Ilarde, Ramon Mitra and Eva Estrada Kalaw.--Marielle Medina, Inquirer Research.
Aug 21, 2018 · Former Senate President Jovito Salonga, one of those most seriously injured in the blast, recalled: "Not one of the doctors who saw me gave me any chance to live." LP stalwart Ninoy Aquino was late, arriving only after the bombing.
Mar 28, 2016 · It must be recalled that Salonga himself was one of the most critically wounded victims of the Plaza Miranda bombing, which Marcos had attributed to the “communists.”
Mar 17, 2016 · Salonga was one of the victims of the infamous bombing at Plaza Miranda in 1971, the attack that killed nine people and wounded hundreds of others. Among those who died was a 10-year-old boy selling cigarettes at the Liberal Party miting de avance.
