Remembering Martial Law

The Philippines commemorates the 40th anniversary of the declaration of martial law on Friday, September 21. Victims of the Marcos dictatorship have been doing the rounds in schools to tell students about the human rights abuses that followed martial law’s declaration. Anti-Marcos activist Susan Quimpo says many students barely know anything about that dark period in Philippine history. She blames this on the fact that the martial law period is hardly covered in the elementary and high school textbooks of Filipino kids. Most teachers perpetuate the Marcos myth of a Singapore-like economy during martial law by mouthing these textbooks, she laments.

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