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The international community eventually got word of these human rights violations and applied pressure to the Marcos dictatorship to end them. In 1975, Marcos aide and chief propagandist Primitivo Mijares defected from the Marcos dictatorship and revealed in front of US lawmakers that torture was routinely practiced within the Marcos regime. [56]
The idea of waging an armed resistance against the Marcos dictatorship was not new when the Light-A-Fire Movement was formed in 1978. By that time, an armed leftist resistance led by the New People's Army and a Muslim Separatist conflict led by the Moro National Liberation Front (and later the Moro Islamic Liberation Front) had been ongoing for years.
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 ...
Ferdinand Marcos' martial law years may have been known for its numerous human rights violations, but it was a "necessity," the Malacañang Palace said in an official statement released yesterday ...
The Marcos dictatorship is historically remembered for its record of human rights abuses, [26] [27] [28] and based on the documentation of Amnesty International, Task Force Detainees of the Philippines, and similar human rights monitoring entities, [29] historians believe that the Marcos dictatorship was marked by 3,257 known extrajudicial ...
Human rights are "rights one has simply because one is a human being." [3] These privileges and civil liberties are innate in every person without prejudice and where ethnicity, place of abode, gender, cultural origin, skin color, religious affiliation, or language including sexual orientation do not matter.
Marcos had an unprecedented 45-point lead over his closest rival—current vice president Leni Robredo—in a February poll Why Bongbong Marcos, a Philippine Dictator’s Son, Leads the Race for ...
The documentary narrates the period of the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, from the 1948 coup d'état against President Rómulo Gallegos and the human rights violations committed by the Seguridad Nacional secret police (including censorship, arrests, torture and extrajudicial killings) to the public works and lavish carnivals promoted by the oil boom.