Academics and historians said civil society and media will play key roles in preserving the country’s history on Martial Law under the presidency of Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos, Jr. READ:
A woman reads a book on martial law under the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani, in Quezon City, Philippines, May 21, 2022. — REUTERS/LISA MARIE DAVIDto buy a book about the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos and his martial rule after his son and namesake won the presidential election by a landslide on May 9.The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos
“They should amplify and popularize through social media the works of historians, sociologists and social scientists to counter the revisionist narrative,” Mr. Hecita said. More than 70,000 people were jailed, about 34,000 were tortured and more than 3,000 people died under martial rule, according to Amnesty International.ve years later that he was toppled by a popular street uprising that sent him and his family into exile in the United States.
“They are in the academe, media, religious sector, urban poor communities, we can go on and on,” he said in a Messenger chat. “Marcos Jr.’s victory will not erase our collective memory. Our history has shown us time and again that Filipinos have ingenious ways of subverting oppression.” “The hope is for the histories surrounding Marcos’ dictatorship and Martial Law not only to be used as themes in artworks but also as material for more engaging public programs and historical research writing.”
“His supporters are then convinced that this is just another attempt to malign and discredit him,” he added. “I was imprisoned by Marcos in 1983 but a year later, the court cleared me,” he said. “I shared my experience on TikTok but many pro-Marcos apologists, or probably trolls, still judged me as guilty.”
“Marcos Jr. has always been presented as a messiah,” he said. “The discourses about him being the Tiger of the North and the one who will reclaim our greatness are all messianic.”