On the afternoon of July 16, 1990, college student Eddie Tanguilig was
enjoying his first ever game of billiards during a month-long students’
strike over tuition fee hikes when he felt the ground shaking. People
began to scream and run out of the buildings.
From a building called Castilla Monte near Burnham Park, Tanguilig
instinctively ran along with the crowd, all the while thinking of his
siblings who were left at home in Tuba, west of Baguio City.
“Sobrang gulo, lahat nagpa-panic,...
