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Martial Law Memories and Movements

The document discusses experiences during the Martial Law period in the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos. It describes the harsh human rights violations that occurred, including illegal arrests, torture, killings and massacres. It also discusses how student movements continued operating secretly to protest against the fascist dictatorship and generate movements to restore student governments and publications, taking advantage of periods when the regime pretended to normalize conditions.

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Martial Law Memories and Movements

The document discusses experiences during the Martial Law period in the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos. It describes the harsh human rights violations that occurred, including illegal arrests, torture, killings and massacres. It also discusses how student movements continued operating secretly to protest against the fascist dictatorship and generate movements to restore student governments and publications, taking advantage of periods when the regime pretended to normalize conditions.

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21ST CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD 11-STEM 3

BASCO, JULIANNE ISABEL F.


• EXPERIENCES DURING MARTIAL LAW

What are your experiences before and during the Martial


Law? What are the harsh aspects of this grim period?

➢ As early as 1969, we observed the propensity of Marcos


to use brute force against the mass movement in both
rural and urban areas. After the proclamation of martial
law in 1972, the Marcos regime imposed a fascist
dictatorship on the people and went full blast in
committing human rights violations. The harshest of these
were the illegal arrests and detention, forced
disappearances, tortures, extrajudicial killings,
massacres, bombardments of rural communities, forced
eviction and illegal seizure of land and other properties.
Millions of people were directly victimized while the
entire nation was being intimidated.
• EXPERIENCES DURING MARTIAL LAW

What were the movements during Martial Law?

➢ Despite being outlawed, Kabataang Makabayan continued to


secretly recruit and organize the students against the Marcos
fascist dictatorship. The KM chapters in schools all over the
country operated under the cover of permitted or unsuspected
sudent organizations. As early as 1974 they started to generate
a movement for the restoration of the student governments
and student publications which had been banned. These were
allowed under severe restrictions in 1976. Open protest
actions of students spread in 1976 and even more so from 1978
onwards. They took advantage of the fascist regime
pretending to normalize and democratize, especially during
the elections.
• EXPERIENCES DURING MARTIAL LAW

After 10 years, how do you see the people’s perception to


Martial Law?

➢ The Filipino people will continue to hate martial law


and the fascist dictatorship as a monstrosity against
their national and democratic rights and interests.
• PHOTO COLLAGE

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