MARLEN V. RONQUILLO

JOSE Manuel Diokno, the former law dean pushed into a doomed senatorial run because very few would dare run, lacks the gravitas of his late father, Ka Pepe Diokno. The late Ka Pepe was a figure like the wartime Churchill — people marched to the purity and utter selflessness of his summons. Of those opposed to Marcos, the deposed president made suffering under Martial Law hardest for two men — Ninoy Aquino and Pepe Diokno.

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