AT GROUND LEVEL By Satur C. Ocampo (The Philippine Star) Updated September 15, 2012 12:00 AM
This week and the next, various groups have organized activities to “commemorate” the 40th year since President Marcos declared martial law on September 21, 1972. The dominant theme is: “Never again to martial law!”
Last Thursday the Rotary Club of Manila Bay asked me to speak on the topic “Martial law 40 years after.” Let me share some points I cited in that speech on this question:
Why have the pernicious imprints of martial law remained palpable 40 years after Marcos imposed one-man rule, and 26 years after a popular uprising ended his dictatorship?
I pointed out that under martial law 70,000 citizens were arrested and detained, several thousands of them tortured. Thousands others were either extrajudicially executed (“salvaged”) or abducted and “disappeared” presumably by state security forces. Hundreds of thousands more were displaced from their communities by counterinsurgency operations, driven to hunger and sickness for months or years.
Till the present time, the victims of these martial-law abuses and human rights violations have not been accorded the justice that they deserve. Not only that. Several thousands more have been similarly victimized — also without any redress — under ALL of the succeeding post-martial law governments.
None of the key martial-law authors and implementers has been called to account and appropriately penalized for his or her crimes against the people. Some of them have even cunningly transited to power in the post-Marcos governments, including the Marcos widow, Imelda, and children Imee and Bongbong.
Why have such conditions prevailed after martial law officially ended? Why have the military-police abuses and human-rights violations not been effectively curbed, despite every new administration’s vow to stop them? Why did Gloria Arroyo dare to try approximating what Marcos did, when she proclaimed a state of national emergency in 2006?
Let me count the reasons why.
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