REMEMBERING THE DAYS OF MARTIAL LAW: An Open Letter for the Filipino Youth
Most of us remember Martial Law as a painful turmoil that the nation ever experience. A national situation associated to all forms of violence from killings, enforced disappearances, lifting of the writ of habeas corpus, massive human rights violations and grave abuses of military and politicians against the people’s civil liberties and democratic rights. Other than all of these, who would forget to associate the former fascist dictator President Ferdinand Marcos to Martial Law? It was a decade-lasting of political situation affecting all aspects of the country’s social system. In fact, one of the 2 remarkable changes to the country’s political system ever known, 1st to GMA’s legacy. We don’t mean a good and exemplary legacy but a traumatic, unashamed and decadent legacy.
What then do we need to understand about Martial Law as a mark to our history, after 40 years of declaration?
The generation of today had not been born during the period, rather use as an excuse to have known how Martial Law impact our country’s social system, the generation of
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You would answer the famous “EDSA PEOPLE POWER or the EDSA REVOLUTION” made it that placed former Pres. Cory Aquino as the next president of the Republic of the Philippines. To put it on record she did not contribute nor spearheaded the MOVEMENT TO CHANGE THE FASCIST-DICTATOR RULE. She went into hiding at the whole duration of the Martial Law. There is nothing wrong with it, we can understand why she needs to but for her to be attributed all of the efforts that culminated to the end of Martial Law and the ousting of Marcos is wrong. IT WAS THE NAMELESS, FACELESS, VIGILANT, FEARLESS AND HEROIC FILIPINO PEOPLE AT THAT DECADE, our grandparents, parents, sisters, brothers who stand against oppression and exploitation made it all