Hilda Narciso, a Martial Law victim recounts how she was abducted and raped during the Marcos regime. She cannot forget the night when she was arrested by about 30 military men who blindfolded and handcuffed her. They traveled by car and went to a military safe house, where she was put in a room with a man and left her alone with him.
She was Raped. She couldn’t imagine what happens next as she was led out of the room to be raped by other men. She can’t forget how there were so many men who groped, fingered and pushed their penises inside her mouth. She cannot do anything the whole time and she felt that she wanted to die during the whole time.
After that traumatic experience, she was able to talk about it to help her heal the wounds. She went on different countries and invited by some international organizations to recount her experience during martial law. The experience was able to help her in putting up women’s organizations to teach human rights awareness and other women’s advocacies.
The story of Felix Dalisay is just one of the traumatic experiences of martial law chronicles. Felix, a leader of one activist group during martial law. He was arrested and brought to Camp Crame for interrogation.
He recalls that he was tied to a chair during the interrogation and if they didn’t like the answers was punished by some kicks and slapping that almost broke his bones. He remembers that they would use several different torture techniques just to make them feel miserable.
The whole experience is very traumatic and some of his colleagues would even go crazy just thinking about the torture that they went through. The victims still carry the burden and trauma that they experience during the martial law so imagine how they felt when they learned about the burial of Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. It was a sad event they felt forgotten and even mocked by some Marcos supporters that they cannot move on from the past.
This video starts with some young men and women being asked what they thought about the Martial Law. They all said good things about the Martial law and said how they want to experience it based on what they hear from other people. They think that it made the Filipinos more disciplined during Marcos time as a president so they are in favour if ever it happens again.
Suddenly, the interviewers introduced themselves as the Martial law victims during the Marcos regime. The interviewers recall their own experiences as victims and tell how they were arrested and tortured by the people of the Marcos government. They told them how they were raped, electrocuted and almost lost their minds during the torture.
The stories made these young people realized how brutal and strict Martial law is. They thought they knew it all and they said they were misinformed on the truth about Martial law. Because of the misconception from the so called Millennial of today, maybe it’s about time that we include the right information and the true story of Martial law in our history books.
In 1972, as his term was coming to an end, President Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law. He justified it as a necessity to counter a growing communist insurgency which posed a security threat to the nation.
But in fact, it was a pretext to arrest all his major political opponents, and close down all media outlets that were not subservient to him.
Journalists, intellectuals, student leaders and ordinary citizens were tortured, kidnapped or imprisoned … or they simply DISAPPEARED.
A short animated video that shows how gruesome and brutal the Marcos government during the days of Martial Law. Martial was justified by the Marcos’s by creating fake communist insurgencies which can help the former President to extend his powers as the ruler of the country. The video shows the possible scenarios for people who are opposed to the government. It also shows the different kinds of torture and abuses that can probably happen today if people will not learn from the past historical events. Through the years, the Marcos family stays in power within the Philippine government so people should not forget how evil and merciless the Marcos’s during their term. Filipinos should be reminded that they steal from the government and abuse the power that was given to them. A lesson that should be instilled in people’s minds that the Marcos’s are still a threat to the Philippines.
Part 2. Lies, Corruption, Murder (Economic and Moral Decline)
Martial Law was the opportunity for President Marcos to silence all his critics who were denouncing the wealth he was amassing with his cronies. During his 20-year rule, he created monopolies for his cronies, awarded behest loans to friends, took over public and private enterprises, deposited money under various aliases in foreign banks. This systematic plunder laid the foundation for his greatest legacy — corruption.
The Presidential Commission on Good Government, established after the EDSA revolution, have so far recovered an estimated US $3.6 billion out of an estimated US$10 billion of illegal wealth.
Part 3. Continuing legacy of corruption and plunder
Historical Negationism is promoted by the Marcoses in order to get back in power.
A music video on the interpretation on how the Martial Law can affect the lives of the Filipinos. The music video show how the Marcos’s lived an extravagant life at the expense of the Philippine government’s money.
It also shows how the martial law victims were killed, abused and tortured by the government. The number of deaths and human rights abuse is shown to remind that the Marcos’s did this to the country. It shows how they spend lots of money from foreign debts while the poor Filipinos suffer from poverty and sickness.
They fooled the whole world that the economic status of the Philippines is strong and progressive. The video is a strong message that Filipinos should not forget how people suffer from Martial Law. Filipinos need to make sure that Martial Law will not happen again and ensure that the peace and humanity in the country will not be taken away.
A 360 version music video on the interpretation on how the Martial Law can affect the lives of the Filipinos. The music video show how the Marcos’s lived an extravagant life at the expense of the Philippine government’s money. It also shows how the martial law victims were killed, abused and tortured by the government.
The number of deaths and human rights abuse is shown to remind that the Marcos’s did this to the country. It shows how they spend lots of money from foreign debts while the poor Filipinos suffer from poverty and sickness. They fooled the whole world that the economic status of the Philippines is strong and progressive.
The video is a strong message that Filipinos should not forget how people suffer from Martial Law. Filipinos need to make sure that Martial Law will not happen again and ensure that the peace and humanity in the country will not be taken away.
