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Do us a favor: Share this on your wall and tag everyone you know who is 35 years old and under. Not because we want our site to get more traffic, but so they get an idea of just how it was like to live during one of the darkest periods of Philippine history: Martial Law during the Marcos regime.
Poet Marne Kilates shared this photo of an art installation by Toym Imao called “Memorial for the Disappeared” as an “instruction for millenials” and for those who would like rewrite Philippine history by arguing that military law was a good time because of clean streets, new infrastructures and discipline in traffic.
“It was about deception and murder, by a government of its citizens,” he points out.
Photo: The Philippine Star (screengrab via Marne Kilates)
