Tag: martial law

I will never forget the look in your eyes, assuring me that all would be well eventually, as they pushed you into their car

"There are so many things happening now .... Things that would rewrite and refute all that have happened when you were still with us"

"The martial law years were never a golden age of development and progress; it was a period of massive suffering"

“We vow to relentlessly reveal the truth about the human rights abuses of the Marcos dictatorship”

“We know the risks, we know the threats, we just can’t allow the fear to erase our works that tell history” - Maria Ceres Doyo

The exhibit of black and white photographs taken by documentary photojournalist Rick Rocamora tags victims of human rights abuses as heroes

Tortured and gang-raped by the troops under martial law in the 1970s, the former history professor said she fears history will repeat itself

If you think martial law was the golden years of Philippine history, listen to the victims and their ordeals. Many of them are still alive.

Church groups call for an end to human rights abuses as the Philippines marks the 49th anniversary of the declaration of martial law

The martial law years under Marcos were considered to be the darkest years of the country with about 70,000 people imprisoned