Isabela State University students wear black for Martial Law anniversary
MANILA, Philippines — Some Isabela State University (ISU) students in Echague wore black on Monday, Sept. 21, to commemorate the 54th anniversary of martial law under Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
The ISU Echague Supreme Student Council had called on students over the weekend to wear black to “remember one of the darkest chapters” in Philippine history.
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“We remember the thousands who were detained, tortured, disappeared, and killed, and the countless families whose lives were changed by the abuses committed during the period,” the council said.
The council said that even though decades had passed since the declaration of martial law and the eventual ouster of Marcos through the 1986 People Power Revolution, “the responsibility to remember remains with us.”
This was “as corruption, injustice, disinformation, and attacks on democratic freedoms continue to concern our country,” it said in a statement on Sunday, Sept. 20. /mcm
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