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It details the inner workings of Philippine martial law under Ferdinand Marcos from the perspective of Mijares. The book's use of the term "conjugal dictatorship" has since been used to denote the rule of Philippine president and dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda Marcos, and is also used to describe a type of familial dictatorship ...
Philippine extrajudicial killings are politically motivated murders committed by government officers, punished by local and international law or convention.They include assassinations; deaths due to strafing or indiscriminate firing; massacre; summary execution is done if the victim becomes passive before the moment of death (i.e., abduction leading to death); assassination means forthwith or ...
At 7:15 p.m. on September 23, 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos announced on television that he had placed the Philippines under martial law, [1] [2] stating he had done so in response to the "communist threat" posed by the newly founded Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), and the sectarian "rebellion" of the Muslim Independence Movement (MIM).
Gerardo T. Faustino (September 24, 1955 – disappeared July 31, 1977) was a Filipino student leader and activist from the University of the Philippines Los Baños [1] [2] who is best known as one of the most prominent desaparecidos of the Marcos Martial Law era in the Philippines.
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 ...
Maria Leticia Quintina Jimenez Pascual-Ladlad [1] (August 30, 1950 – disappeared November 1, 1975), [2] also known by her nickname Tish, [3] was a student journalist at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) during the Marcos dictatorship, known for being the first woman editor-in-chief of the Aggie Green and Gold, for her community organizing work among farmers in Laguna and ...
Rizalina "Lina" Parabuac Ilagan (born June 19, 1954—disappeared on July 31, 1977) was an anti-martial law activist who belonged to a network of community organizations in the Southern Tagalog region in the Philippines. [1] [2]
Susan Ferrer Quimpo (February 6, 1961 – July 14, 2020) [1] [2] was a Filipino activist, author, theater artist, and art therapist [3] best known for her advocacy work of educating the Filipino youth about the Philippines’ Martial Law era, [1] [4] and for co-writing the book “Subversive Lives: A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years.” [5] [6]