Cebu-based Martial Law survivors are counting on the youth to spread the stories of hardships they experienced during the dark period of the Marcos dictatorship.at the Fernan Cebu Press Center in Cebu City on Friday night, September 23, as part of artist collective DAKILA’s Active Vista International Human Rights Festival.
“We’re hopeful that you’ll answer the challenge when it comes,” Holganza told the audience, composed mostly of youth. “It’s also good that you’re bringing up our stories for this generation because people are really trying to gloss over the stories of torture and death, to the extent of propagandizing the era and calling it the renaissance,” he added in a mix of Cebuano and English.
Martial Law survivors based in Cebu join a panel discussion after the film screening of ‘11,103’ at the Fernan Cebu Press Center in Cebu City on September 23, 2022. Fifty years have passed since Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law in the country on September 21, 1972. Another Marcos now sits in Malacañang as president, his son Ferdinand Marcos Jr., whose campaign was bolstered by a long-term disinformation machinery that aimed to cleanse their family name. (READ: