"Black is for mourning. Black is for cruelty. Black is for the darkness that has befallen us," Cardinal Jaime Sin told the congregation of a church close to Manila's EDSA area. Outside, human chains spanned for 10 kilometers, from the Ninoy Aquino monument on Ayala Avenue to EDSA.

As night engulfed the sky above Metro Manila, the number of protesters had swollen to around 50,000, all voicing the same demand: Estrada must go. From the very same chur