This Wednesday, August 21, marks the 30th year of one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in this country: the assassination of the late Senator Benigno S. Aquino Jr.

To a group of people, mostly grandstanding politicians, the day is celebrated as a hero’s day; to some, it is considered as the antithesis of that heroism; and to others, it is a political malaise that must be given full and factual explanation to reverse the consequential cycle of hatred and vengeance.