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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 ...
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. [3]
The Southern Tagalog 10 was a group of activists abducted and "disappeared" in 1977 during martial law in the Philippines under Proclamation No. 1081 issued by President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Of the 10 university students and professors who were abducted, only three, Virgilio Silva, Salvador Panganiban, and Modesto Sison, "surfaced" later after ...
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]
Liliosa Rapi Hilao (() March 14, 1950 – () April 5, 1973) was a Filipina student journalist and activist who was killed while under government detention during Martial Law in the Philippines, and is remembered as the first prisoner to die in detention during martial law in the Philippines. [1]
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 ...
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 ...
The family suspected the Philippine government military in his abduction. [143] Del Rosario, who was never seen nor heard from since, is considered the first victim of enforced disappearance during the Marcos regime. [144] The Southern Tagalog 10 was a group of activists working in Central Luzon during Marcos' martial law in the Philippines. [145]