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27-03-2013   (Concluded from Monday)  In his speech last March
18 at the 45th anniversary of the so-called “Jabidah Massacre”,
President Benigno Aquino IIIstood at loggerheads with his
father, the late former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., in
their presentations of the event that triggered the Moro
secessionist wars in the Philippines.  “It has been four and a
half decades since the bloody events here in Corregidor,” the
president said. “Members of the Jabidah unit were slain, and on
top of that the ordeal has almost been forgotten. To this day
the government has yet to officially recognise it.”  Apparently
without fully realising the import of his statement, the
President stood on its head his father’s version of the tragedy.
In his privilege speech at the Senate on March 28, 1968, Ninoy
Aquino derided the Jabidah operation as having “all the
trappings of a James Bond fiction”.  Jabidah, said Ninoy, “is an
operation so wrapped in fantasy and fan