21/09/2026
๐ช๐๐๐ก ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ข๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐, ๐ ๐๐ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ก๐๐.
On September 21, 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos signed Proclamation No. 1081, placing the Philippines under martial law. What followed was a period marked by the concentration of power, restrictions on civil liberties, suppression of dissent, and documented human rights violations.
Rallies and demonstrations were prohibited. The press faced severe restrictions. People could be arrested and detained under the expanded powers of the state. For many Filipinos, the period became a lived history of fear, silence, imprisonment, torture, disappearance, and loss. Philippine law itself recognizes victims of summary ex*****on, torture, enforced or involuntary disappearance, and other gross human rights violations committed during the Marcos regime.
But history is not meant to remain trapped in textbooks.
๐ช๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฅ ๐ก๐ข๐ง ๐ง๐ข ๐๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ก ๐ง๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐ฆ๐ง, ๐๐จ๐ง ๐ง๐ข ๐ฅ๐๐๐ข๐๐ก๐๐ญ๐ ๐ช๐๐๐ง ๐ง๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐ฆ๐ง ๐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ง ๐ง๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ฆ.
Because when a society forgets what happened when power went unchecked, silence can become fertile ground for history to repeat itself.
To remember is to honor those who suffered.
To learn is to protect the truth.
To speak is to affirm that ๐๐จ๐ ๐๐ก ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ง๐ฆ ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ง ๐ฃ๐ฅ๐๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข ๐๐ ๐ง๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐ช๐๐ฌ ๐ช๐๐๐ก ๐ฃ๐ข๐ช๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข.
September 21 is more than a date on the calendar. ๐๐ง ๐๐ฆ ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ฅ ๐ง๐๐๐ง ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐๐ค๐จ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐, ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ข๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ค๐จ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฅ.
๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐บ:
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๐๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ข๐๐
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