Marcos-Aquino rivalry only in politics –Bongbong

There was never a time that the Marcoses went after the Aquinos.

This was the statement of Sen. Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. on Tuesday, reacting to President Benigno Aquino III's pronouncement in Boston that he once yearned vendetta against the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos after the assassination of his father, Sen. Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., in 1983.

"In politics there are issues that you don't agree upon, but that is in the political arena, hindi naman lalabas doon," Marcos told reporters in a chance interview. "There was never a [time that we wanted to go after them]."

Asked if he thinks Aquino may exact revenge now that he is is power, the Marcos scion said: "Maybe you can say that but I don't feel that."

Ninoy Aquino, a staunch critic of the elder Marcos, was killed at the Manila International Airport in 1983 when the late dictator was still in power.

Ninoy Aquino's death inspired a massive revolt against the Marcos dictatorship. In 1986, a peaceful revolution toppled the two-decade reign of Marcos. His widow, Corazon Aquino, the President's mother, became president.

Speaking before the Filipino community in Boston, Massachusetts, on Monday (PHL time), Aquino compared Marcos and his allies to "rabid dogs who had lost all reason" during the Martial Law years.

In the same event, he revealed that he felt an urge to exact revenge after his father's death.

"As the only son, I felt an overwhelming urge to exact an eye for an eye… I knew that he was a formidable foe, and the fight would be impossible, but regardless of this, in those moments, all I wanted to do to Mr. Marcos and his camp, was to do unto him as he had done unto us," he said.  —KBK, GMA News