MANILA – The Akbayan Citizens’ Action Party urged Filipinos to reject efforts by former president Ferdinand Marcos’ family to “paint a rosy picture” of the dictator’s two-decade regime, a day before t
he country marks the 48th year since the late strongman declared martial law.
The younger Marcos, who was a senator before running for vice presidency in 2016 but lost to Vice President Leni Robredo, claimed his family is a "victim" of historical revisionism, asserting that accusations against them have been unproven, despite legal proof of atrocities and ill-gotten wealth during his father's rule.
“Duterte can obscure the truth and make people doubt their own history, but only for a while,” the group said. “The more the government’s education officials delay this institutional teaching, the more they prove to the people that they are complicit to the falsification of our history,” the group said.
The Marcos camp denied the claim, adding that it would possibly file libel charges against the former employee. According to reports from global human rights watchdog Amnesty International, around 100,000 people were victims of martial law, with 3,000 killed, 34,000 tortured and 70,000 arrested.
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