Philippine History: Bonifacio: Slain Again and Again

Andres Bonifacio, also known as "May Pag-asa," was executed somewhere in the mountains of Maragondon in Cavite on May 10, 1897. As expected, however, the tenth of May recently came and passed with almost absolute silence on it as the death anniversary of the Gleat Plebeian. Actually, Bonifacio has been slain many times over, in ways not readily realized by the average Filipino. And the near-total silence of May Tenth this year, as in earlier years, is but a manifestation of this repeated killing.