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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]
Because his murder was a watershed moment that united the peoples of the Cordillera in opposition against the dam, Macli-ing Dulag is among the most well known of the many victims of Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos, and his name is inscribed on the Bantayog ng mga Bayani's Wall of Remembrance memorial in Quezon City. [1]
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]
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.
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.
Archimedes "Archie" Francisco Trajano (1956–1977) was a Filipino student activist during the 1972–1986 martial law regime in the Philippines. His death in 1977 has been linked to Imee Marcos, the daughter of the Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who was President at the time.
Martial law is unheard of in the modern democratic era, which has seen South Korea become a major exporter and a cultural powerhouse, thanks in part to the huge global popularity of K-pop and K-drama.
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.