Never Again! The 35th Martial Law Commemoration
Posted by Shari on September 21, 2007 · 1 Comment
A repost from last year. Changed, added, and deleted some details here and there.
Exactly today, people would look back 35 years in the past, and remember the pains and hardships they had to go through in the hands of a fascist leader. Exactly today, people would again experience – in monochromatic lens – the violations and abuses made by the military and the state against them. Exactly today, people would remember that it has been 35 years since the declaration of (the first) Martial Law here in the Philippines.
Thirty-five years. That should mean something. Feelings of suffering, loss, pain. Basically feelings of despair – whipped up and sliced and mixed, all in the span of 35 years. But then, maybe, maybe we kids do not really feel anything about it at all. Maybe we’re apathetic to this fact because we haven’t been born yet that time. Heck, I know I existed not even in dreams. Maybe we blow this off because we think we do not experience the same tyranny and repression our elders have experienced during the Marcos regime.
Oh, wait. We do not?
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