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LFS hits PNoy for ‘dictatorship’ remark abs-cbnNEWS.com MANILA, Philippines – “A man with no sense of history.” This was how the League of Filipino Students (LFS) described President Benigno Aquino after he likened LFS to the Marcos dictatorship during his speech at the investiture of new Ateneo de Manila University president Fr. Jett Villarin last…

Human Rights Online Philippines

September 10, 2011

1–2 minutes

Asia, Ateneo de Manila University, Benigno Aquino III, Benigno Aquino Jr., Ferdinand Marcos, Manila, Philippine, Press Release

LFS hits PNoy for ‘dictatorship’ remark
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MANILA, Philippines – “A man with no sense of history.”

This was how the League of Filipino Students (LFS) described President Benigno Aquino after he likened LFS to the Marcos dictatorship during his speech at the investiture of new Ateneo de Manila University president Fr. Jett Villarin last Thursday.

“Our members had been felled by the dictatorship’s bullets from our founding in 1977. And to be cheaply swiped by the son of Ninoy is nothing but the remark of a man with no sense of history,” said LFS national chairperson Terry Ridon.

In his speech, where he reminisced on his college years in Ateneo, the President recounted having apprehensions about joining LFS when it was being organized during the martial law.

“Lahat ho kami, may agam-agam. Tama ba na papasailalim tayo sa kanilang tinatawag na Executive Committee kung saan, may diktadura na nga sa labas ng ating pamantasan, sasama pa kami sa isang organisasyon na didiktahan rin kami?”

“Naalala ko pa ang aming pangulo noon, si Budge Orara, na kung saan natapos ang botohan ay biglang humalakhak, pagkatapos ng pagkaseryo-seryosong boto—dahil unanimous po ang aming desisyon na hindi tama sumama sa League of Filipino Students noong mga panahong iyon,” Aquino said.

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