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Various forms of torture were used by the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines between the declaration of martial law in 1972 and the Marcos family's ouster during the People Power Revolution in 1986. These included a range of methods Philippine forces picked up during its long periods of colonial occupation under Spanish, American, and ...
This category is for victims of unlawful arrest, detention, rape, torture, enforced disappearance, or summary execution during martial law in the Philippines in the Marcos era. This may include political prisoners who were accused with trumped-up charges.
The dictatorship of 10th Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos in the 1970s and 1980s is historically remembered for its record of human rights abuses, [1] [2] particularly targeting political opponents, student activists, [3] journalists, religious workers, farmers, and others who fought against his dictatorship.
One of the highlights of the Bantayog Museum's collection is a replica jail cell based on the memory of Martial Law victim Hilda Narciso, [20] a church worker who was arrested by Marcos' Martial Law forces, subjected to rape and torture, [21] and was held with 20 fellow detainees in a cell no bigger than two or three square meters. [22] [23]
Relatives of victims of alleged war crimes committed by Myanmar’s military filed a criminal complaint in the Philippines against their nation’s ruling generals as they increasingly seek to ...
Abellana, Godofredo "Dodong" Abiog, Napoleon Torralba; Aboli, Tayab "Arthur" Ayyungo; Acebedo, Norberto "Boyet" Hermoso Jr. Acebedo, Roy Lorenzo Hermoso
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]
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 ...