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Never Again: Voices of Martial Law opens on September 21
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POSTER Manuel Mesina III (SPOT.ph) Martial Law, imposed by former President Ferdinand Marcos from 1972 to 1981, has become an abstract idea especially for today’s youth. The atrocities of that era have become largely invisible, buried by both time and...
Group eyes class suit to stop hero’s burial for Marcos
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JING VILLAMENTE, LLANESCA T. PANTI, FERNAN MARASIGAN, JEFFERSON ANTIPORDA AND CATHERINE S. VALENTE A COALITION of human rights, civic and people’s organizations “of all shades of colors” is planning to troop to Rizal Park on Sunday to protest the hero...
Kin of Martial Law heroes: ‘It feels like a homecoming’
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MANILA, Philippines – Nineteen men and women who fought the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos on Wednesday, November 30, joined the 268 other individuals whose names are enshrined at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani’s wall of remembrance. Among the newly honored...
Apology and restitution
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A written response to a statement issued by Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to an ANC interview about the abuses and corruption committed by his father’s decades-long rule came out a day before the country marked the 43rd anniversary of the declaration...
SC hears oral arguments today on Marcos burial at Libingan
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The Supreme Court (SC) hears starting this morning oral arguments on the burial of the late former President Ferdinand E. Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB) in Taguig City. Six petitions have been filed against the burial ordered by President...

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The toilet bucket battle at Sudaimoon Prison, Seoul

The current craze over K-pop and K-drama might make us forget the fact that, as with the Philippines, Korea went through dictatorship and had its share of political prisoners. Read below how young and courageous students fought against maltreatment...
Never Again to Tyranny!

The martyrs and heroes we honor each year at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani are silent witnesses of a past generation that faced a dictatorship and contributed its best sons and daughters in the struggle to defeat such a regime. We lost much to dictatorship...
Repression & Resistance

PAINTING REPRESSION is a montage of different paintings done by various artists. It gives an overview of Philippine history beginning in 1965 through the EDSA revolution. The montage features several painters that belong to Kaisahan, a group of progressive...
When the rains come, will not the grass grow again?

GRASS GROWS. Why does there have to be an “enemy?” The retired military officer who asked this question went on to write a book detailing his insights on the government’s Red scare campaign in the 1950s. Like today, that time in our history was a time...
Consulate, Marcos agents linked to espionage case (1975)

Read this short but gripping spy story from California. Certain important documents went missing at a Los Angeles conference in 1975 organized by a group of anti-Marcos Fil-Ams and Filipinos in America. The theft was reported to the LA police. Three...

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Extrajudicial Killings – Bantayog ng mga Bayani

Tag: Extrajudicial Killings This section monitors developments on the issue of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines and provides links to related literature. This is an important concern to Banta...

VILLANUEVA, Marcelino M. – Bantayog ng mga Bayani

“When I grow up, Inay, I will build you a beautiful house, with ten maids to help you. We’ll fill it with nice furniture too!” His mother remembers her boy’s childhood promise, a dream that didn’t s...