Never forget: A bookstore owner with a book containing a news clipping of the declaration of martial law in Manila. — Reuters
“They are panic buying,” Alexine Parreno said of her customers, buying books about martial law aimed at children.One shopper was Faith Alcazaren, a mother of two, who picked up extra bundles of books to send to friends overseas.Thousands of opponents of the senior Marcos were jailed, killed or disappeared during martial law, from 1972 to 1981, when the family name became synonymous with cronyism and extravagance as billions of dollars of state wealth disappeared.
“We already thought that textbooks and the teaching of history in basic education was woefully inadequate in terms of explaining to our youth and children what the martial law period meant,” said Ramon Guillermo, a professor at the University of the Philippines. The manifesto, signed by 1,700 people, came after a government task force labelled as communist a children’s book publishing firm selling five titles on martial law and dictatorship it called “#NeverAgain Book Bundle”.
The younger Marcos fought the election with the slogan “Together, we shall rise again”, invoking nostalgia for his father’s rule, which his family and supporters have portrayed as a golden age.
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