Martial Law ni Marcos Kasaysayan Pagnanakaw at Paglaban sa Karapatan

Fifty years had elapsed from the time Martial Law was declared by the late Ferdinand E. Marcos, Sr. Today, the son is about to finish his first 100 days as President. Vilified in every turn by critics and his political adversaries Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. Weathered through it all and was elected into the Presidency by an unprecedented super majority.

Fifty years ago, the father was confronted with his most crucial challenge – whether or not to place the entire country in the state of emergency and then declared Martial Law.

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These days in the din of protest and extreme hatred for Marcos only the arrests, tortures and other brutalities are heard and read while the facts and circumstances that prod Marcos to declare Martial Law are buried in oblivion.

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Not a few who are alive today have actively participated in an upheaval that was steered by communist ideologues. Jose Ma. Sison organized the Kabataang Makabayan in nearly all campuses in universities and colleges in what is now the National Capital Region. That the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New Peoples Army were hatched in Tarlac , the political base of Benigno Aquino was never challenged.

KM stirred the student unrest while the CPP/NPA attempted to land a huge arms cache for its armed element the New Peoples Army.

To be a member of KM was the “in thing” and it is from this rank were the CPP/NPA ideologues were recruited.

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In Mindanao the secessionist movement reared an ugly head and in no time they became threats to the security of the region. While once, only a bladed bolo called “tabas” were carried by the erstwhile peace loving people, not a few of them started to bear arms. As to where the heavy firearms were sourced it can only be surmised that these were smuggled through the porous south.

When Marcos declared Martial Law, armed conflicts immediately flared in Cotabato and this spilled over to Davao provinces. In Luzon pocket rebellion raged. Naturally, arrests were made and not hundreds were detained. In Mindanao, the government was facing two fronts: the CPP/NPA and the secessionists MILF.

In the course of civil strife not a few were killed, tortured and murdered. Those who wail about the cruelties that happened at the height of ML and blamed it on the police and military conveniently stonewalled the fact that the kangaroo court of the NPAs are doing exactly the same thing. Nobody complains for they cannot complain.

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Jose Ma. Sison, the chieftain of the CPP/NPA was captured and detained by Marcos. However, for reasons that explains and confirms the compact in Tarlac, he was immediately released by the revolutionary and dictatorial regime of Corazon Aquino.

If we have to shout “never again” we should not be selective to suit our own stories. We are still fighting the CPP/NPAs today.The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) firmly rejects the statements of Ferdinand Marcos Jr which justify Marcos Sr’s declaration of martial law on September 21, 1972, as well as the abuses committed by the military and police during the 14-year reign of terror.

The other day, Marcos Jr echoed the same claims made by his father fifty years ago that the country was facing both a “communist rebellion” and a “Moro separatist movement.” Like his father, Marcos Jr scapegoated the New People’s Army, which in 1972 was just a few hundred strong and based mostly in Luzon. It was a narrow justification to establish a military dictatorship, whose real aim was to monopolize political power, suppress all forms of dissent and opposition, and camouflage their reign of plunder and corruption.

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Marcos Jr admitted that abuses were committed but normalized these by claiming that such happen “like in any war.” He obscured the existence of international laws that govern war, which precisely, aim to protect people from such abuses.

During Marcos Sr’s dictatorship, the military and police committed gross abuses primarily against peasants and minority peoples, to take away their land to serve the interests of big landlords, foreign logging and mining companies and their bourgeois comprador partners; and against workers to destroy their unions and press down wages to the benefit of profit-hungry capitalists. Scores of massacres and killings, torture and political detention of tens of thousands of people, are among the gross acts of abuses committed during Marcos’ dictatorial rule.

Marcos Jr must be denounced for his abominable justification of these abuses. He practically exculpated the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and military-police officer for all the abuses and rights violations committed under martial law. He is feeding the fascist mindset and impunity with which abuses and violations of human rights continue to be perpetrated by state-terrorist forces to this day.

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Despite established facts and court decisions, both here and abroad, Marcos Sr, nor any one of his officers, was ever punished for these crimes. This is among the reasons why the fascist abuses of martial law continue to this day with the same brutal tactics of martial law being applied to suppress the people’s civil and political rights and eliminate all forms of resistance and opposition.

Marcos Jr and the rest of the Marcoses are the biggest beneficiary of martial law. They illegally accumulated billions of dollars through plunder and corruption of public funds. Marcos Jr’s ascension to power was bankrolled using martial law monies to mount a campaign of disinformation to manipulate public opinion, buy political and military loyalties, and establish an alliance with the Dutertes and Arroyos to rig the automated elections and secure his power.

While the Filipino people suffer from widespread unemployment, low wages and salaries, lack of income, landlessness and land grabbing, the Marcoses and their minions, continue to accumulate wealth and power, buttressed by the same vicious beasts of martial law. Especially at this time that the Filipino people remember the declaration of martial law 50 years ago, they must vigorously reject and denounce the abuses of political, economic and military power that continue to this day. They must wage revolutionary struggle to put an end to the semicolonial and semifeudal system that engenders increasingly worse forms of oppression and exploitation.Noong gabi ng Setyembre 23, 1972, kinausap ni Ferdinand Marcos ang mga Pilipino gamit ang telebisyon at radyo para ipaalam sa buong bansa na nagdeklara na siya ng batas militar.

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Inilarawan ng Proclamation No. 1081 ang state of lawlessness na laganap sa buong bansa at inilalagay sa panganib ang buhay ng mga Pilipino.

Ginawang dahilan ni Marcos ang paglakas ng mga Komunista sa bansa. Ayon sa kanya, nakakuha sila ng armas mula sa Tsina na siyang gagamitin upang pabagsakin ang pamahalaan at guluhin ang mapayapang buhay ng mga ordinaryong Pilipino. Ikinumpara ni Marcos ang estado ng bansa sa isang digmaan na plano niyang itigil.

Bilang sagot sa nagbabantang lakas ng mga Komunista, idineklara ni Marcos na isasailalim niya sa batas militar ang Pilipinas alinsunod sa kanyang kapangyarihan bilang Presidente na nakasaad sa 1935 Philippine Constitution. Kasama dito ay ang kapangyarihan ng Presidente na pangasiwaan ang Armed Forces ng Pilipinas para panatilihin ang batas at kaayusan, pati ang eksklusibong kapangyarihan para magpasya kung mananatiling nakakulong ang isang tao para sa kanyang mga krimen.

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Ng Batas Militar para mapalaganap ng kapayapaan at kaunlaran sa bansa. Makikita daw ng mga susunod kay Marcos ang bungang ito; ngunit, ang mga tututol sa kanya ay magdudusa tulad ng mga rebelde.

Kahit na Setyembre 23 ipinahayag ang pagdedeklara ng batas militar, pinirmahan ni Marcos ang dokumentong nagpapatupad nito noong Setyembre 21, 1972 dahil sa mga pamahiin niya tungkol sa mga numero.

Noong idineklara ni Marcos ang batas militar sa Pilipinas, ang partikular na pangyayari na kanyang binanggit para bigyang katwiran ang kanyang desisyon ay ang pag-aalsa ng mga Komunista at ang naganap na pagtambang sa kanyang Minister of Defense na si Juan Ponce Enrile sa labas ng Wack-Wack subdivision. Kasama ang mga pangyayaring ito sa saklaw ng mga imminent threat o mga nalalapit na banta na siyang kakatuwiran sa pagdeklara ng batas militar.

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Noon ay dumadami lang sa 1, 000 na tao ang mga NPA guerilla na ang hawak na sandata ay mga laos at lumang armas. Ayon sa mga tala ng NPA, dumadami lang ng 350 ang kanilang mga katauhan na may hawak ng

Noong panahon ng batas militar. Ayon sa mga ibang eksperto, mismong ang pagdeklara ng batas militar noong 1972 ang nag-udyok sa pagdami ng mga kasapi ng mga radikal na organisasyon. Ayon sa mga tala tungkol sa pagtaas ng pagsali sa mga radikal na grupo, malaking dahilan ang ideyalismo ng kabataan at ang kanilang pagtutol sa mga abuso ng gobyerno. Sa katapusan ng panahon ng Martial Law, natala ang paglaki ng bilang ng mga miyembro sa mga radikal na grupo: ang 1, 500 noong 1976 ay naging 35, 000 noong 1985.

Pinagdudahan din ang sinasabing pag-atake kay Juan Ponce Enrile ng walang iba kundi si Juan Ponce Enrile din mismo. Sa isang panayam pagkatapos maitaboy mula sa kapangyarihan si Marcos, inamin ni Enrile na gawa-gawa lang ang kuwentong ito para daw maagaw ni Marcos ang kapangyarihang inaasam niya.

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Sa halip na sa sarili niyang sasakyan. Sa katotohanan, dahil sa pag-amin ni Enrile,