Ferdinand Marcos used the communist insurgency, then only a few years old, as his main excuse to declare martial law, 46 years ago this weekend. In 1972, the strength of the New People’s Army was estimated at 1,028 rebels; by the time he was People-Powered out of Malacañang Palace in 1986, the NPA had grown to over 22,500 armed regulars. By Marcos’ own standard, then, martial law was—as kids say these days—an epic fail. Marcos used
What message does a university send to its students when it honors an adjudicated perpetrator of human rights? The recent Kabataang Barangay reunion and anniversary celebration honoring Imee Marcos at the University of the Philippines was perverse and shameful by lauding the perpetrator of a brutal torture and murder of a
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