"We want the Supreme Court to issue a temporary retraining order and/or writ of preliminary injunction to stop the Department of National Defense and the Armed Forces of the Philippines from conferring national honors to Marcos through the burial at the heroes' cemetery," Trinidad said. " If s...
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“The office of a government-appointed board that compensated victims of human rights abuses in the Philippines during 1972-81 martial law closed permanently at 5 pm on May 11.” —Melo Acuna, La Croix International, June 2018 Note This content is not meant to be a formal definition of thi...
On September 21, 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos signed Proclamation No. 1081, declaring Martial Law in the Philippines. What followed was one of the most traumatic periods in our country’s history marked by a record number of human rights violations including numerous extrajudicial killings. Democ...
MANILA, Philippines - The chairwoman of a group of martial law political prisoners urged President Aquino to work for the passage of a law to guarantee the indemnification of thousands of victims of martial law."It's about time that the victims under the Marcos dictatorship be accorded a ...