dead links #ninoybook

pre-pandemic i had been working on a ninoy book for some 18 months na.  napatigil lang ako noong mag-lockdown at nabalikan ko lang in july.  so, to refresh my mind, i’ve been reviewing the whole thing from the top, double-checking my sources, especially those online, finally bothering to note the date i last accessed each of them.

to my dismay, some links that had never failed me before lead nowhere bigla. dead bigla.  #five so far.

the first on ninoy’s writings, smuggled from jail in 1973 and published by the Bangkok Post, that led to his and pepe diokno’s disappearance from fort bonifacio for that month-long solitary confinement in laur. “The Aquino Papers” 2010/05/11 by Miriam Grace A. Go  May 5 2010.  https://www.seapa.org/the-aquino-papers/

the second, on “The struggle against forgetting” by Juan L. Mercado, who helped get ninoy’s stuff published abroad.  Aug 19 2011. https://thedailyguardian.net/opinion/the-struggle-against-forgetting/

the third on steve psinakis: the “Anti-Marcos renegade’s years of living dangerously”.  June 3 2009. Rogue’s 2008 State of the Nation Issue  http://rogue.ph/steve-psinakis-1932-2016/

the fourth on the “Enduring nightmare of the Manila Film Center”.  http://rogue.ph/enduring-nightmare-manila-film-center/

and the fifth, “Hello Ninoy, Goodbye Ninoy” by Sol Jose Vanzi, on the weekend of ninoy’s homecoming and assassination. August 20, 2018. https://news.mb.com.ph/2018/08/20/hello-ninoy-goodbye-ninoy/

someone’s (some ones?) cleaning up, erasing historical facts that hurt the marcos revisionism? are authors and websites complicit in these erasures? reminds me of kahimyang.com that i thought was kinda makabayan if not anti-marcos. well, not anymore. anti-ninoy na siya.  posting stuff like  “Marcos – a great man unjustly judged at the wrong time by the wrong minds”.  argh.