After nearly four days out of the spotlight (some say in hiding), President Benigno Bs. Aquino III finally emerged last Monday, April 4, to attend a public event and perform an official chore.

Many believed that, as has been characteristic of him throughout his presidency, he had disappeared from view because of the tragic events in Kidapawan City, North Cotabato, where three protesting/petitioning farmers were killed and scores of others were wounded by police forces, who were ineptly trying to disperse a farmers’ protest and remove their barricading of a major highway in the province. Aquino hid lest he be blamed for the violence.

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