[COLUMN FOR 2ND TABLOID ’15-’16]
Three years ago, in that one fateful day of February, I heard a long-forgotten story of a nameless hero.
My auntie, my mother’s eldest sister alive, finely narrates the story and brought me back on the spate of united and principled people’s uprising against the state.
It was about a brave man, he was my mother’s brother, eldest among the 13 siblings of the De Leon-Sinque family.
Auntie said he was hard-headed, impulsive, and cunning – she described him in the harshest words that she knew.
One day, the family discovered he became part of the revolutionary movement. It was during the pre-martial law era. He became a Commander of an armed revolutionary group. Continue reading “COLUMN: WE ARE NAMELESS AND ALL NAMES ARE OURS”
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