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Read this to understand what President Duterte means when he says his Martial Law will be “harsh” like Marcos’ Martial Law
MAY 26, 2017 BY RAISSA
“Martial Law is Martial Law,” Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte recently said as he explained his sudden declaration of Martial Law through an interview with Palace chief propagandist Mocha Uson.
Then Duterte added a word of warning to those who had suffered Martial Law under his role model, dictator Ferdinand Marcos: “So kayong mga kababayan ko (so to my countrymen), you have experienced martial law it will not be any different from what the President Marcos did. I’ll be harsh.”
Duterte then justified his harshness by saying, “I have to do it to preserve the Republic of the Philippines.”
Today, fewer people know what Duterte means by the word “harsh” since there are more Filipinos now who were born after the dictator Marcos was forced to flee the country in 1986.
To give readers some idea of what Duterte means by “harsh”, I am posting here for anyone to read online excerpts from my book, Marcos Martial Law: Never Again.
The first excerpt is part of the introduction – The Boy who Fell from the Sky.
Here is the link to read it online.
The second excerpt is – Advent of the New Society which includes The Road to Martial Law. It shows the steps Marcos took to impose martial rule.
Here is the link to read it online.
You can share the links with anyone so they, too, can read them online.
I am doing this in the hope that more Filipinos will know what happened in the past so it will never ever be repeated again.
– Raïssa
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