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English: Proclamation No. 1081 PDF file on the Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines website, signed by President Ferdinand Marcos on September 21, 1972.
Proclamation No. 1081 was the document which contained formal proclamation of martial law in the Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos, as announced to the public on September 23, 1972. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Of the various threats cited in the Proclamation 1081 document as rationalizations for declaration of Martial Law, the most extensively described was the threat supposedly posed by Communist insurgents – specifically the newly formed Communist Party of the Philippines, a Maoist organization which had only recently broken off from the Marxist ...
Martial law monument in Mehan Garden. Martial law in the Philippines (Filipino: Batas Militar sa Pilipinas) refers to the various historical instances in which the Philippine head of state placed all or part of the country under military control [1] —most prominently [2]: 111 during the administration of Ferdinand Marcos, [3] [4] but also during the Philippines' colonial period, during the ...
Opposition groups began to form, with "moderate" groups calling for political reform and "radical" groups espousing radical-left ideology. [148] [149] [150] Marcos responded with military force. The most notable was the response to protests during the first three months of 1970 – a period known as the First Quarter Storm. [151] [152] [150]
The alleged assassination attempt of Enrile [30] [24] [25] [31] together with the general citizen disquiet, were used by Marcos as reasons to issue Presidential Proclamation No. 1081, proclaiming a state of martial law in the Philippines on September 21.
Journalism during the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines—a fourteen year period between the declaration of Martial Law in September 1972 until the People Power Revolution in February 1986—was heavily restricted under the dictatorial rule of President Ferdinand Marcos in order to suppress political opposition and prevent criticism of his administration.
Marcos blamed this unrest on the newly-formed Communist Party of the Philippines under Jose Maria Sison, [14] despite both Philippine and American intelligence services noting that the communist situation in the Philippines was "normal" or at the lowest level of concern; [15] [16] and on a supposed "Islamic Insurgency",although the armed Moro ...