‘Beneath the four dump trucks was a sea of blood, dripping non-stop onto the concrete floors of the munisipyo's basketball court.’ Opinion Voices
Even though politics was the inspiration behind my name , I had no idea then about the brutality of the Marcos dictatorship. I was born three years after the madman declared martial law in 1972.Hala, gipatay si Ninoy
My family lived in the southernmost part of the country, Mati, the sleepy capital town of Davao Oriental. The heated political atmosphere in Manila following Ninoy’s murder had soon seeped into our province, and I think it was in 1985 when I first witnessed first-hand the brutality of the Marcos regime.
From afar, I saw people crowding four dump trucks, which were overflowing with naked, dead bodies of people, young and old. As I got nearer, what struck me most was the body of what looked like a five-year-old girl, her stomach opened wide, riddled with bullets. Beside her was the body of an old woman, her head riddled with bullets, too.
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