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🗓️ 16 May 2022
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In 1986, four days of huge public protests brought down President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines. Kate McGowan, in Manila, talks to the leading Filipino novelist, Jose Dalisay, about the demonstrations. This edition of Witness History was first broadcast in 2011.
PHOTO: Filipino troops celebrating the fall of President Marcos (Getty Images)
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0:41.3 | Following the victory of Ferdinand Marcost Jr. known as Bong Bong in the |
0:46.3 | elections in the Philippines, we're bringing you the story of how his father's long period |
0:51.7 | of military rule was ended by four days of mass demonstrations. |
0:57.0 | Kate McGowan spoke to one of the protesters who took to the streets in 1986 to bring down Ferdinand Marcos senior. |
1:07.0 | It's February the 22nd, 1986 and tens of thousands of people are gathering on one of Manila's main thoroughfares, |
1:16.1 | the Epiphano de Los Santos Avenue, or Edsa as it's most commonly known. |
1:21.0 | Whole families went out there. |
1:23.0 | Those who couldn't go there brought support. |
1:26.0 | There were whole kitchens mobilised to bring food. |
1:31.0 | People brought blankets, they brought chairs, whatever they could bring to make |
1:37.5 | sure that the people who did stay there could be as comfortable as possible. |
1:45.0 | The people on the street are protesting against their president of more than 20 years, |
1:49.0 | Ferdinand Marcos, and recent elections that they believe he rigged. |
1:54.0 | Jose Delisai is a teacher at the University of the Philippines. |
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