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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
THE Plaza Miranda bombing of Aug. 21, 1971 concerns the deadly attack on the Liberal Party proclamation rally in the city of Manila for its senatorial and local candidates, which left nine people dead and 95 others injured.
