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affects to us, Zamboanga n country

Martial law affects us up to these days is that we are still scared and worried that one day
Martial Law will be implemented again in our country. As what we heard from the news, history and the
people who were able to experienced and present on those times that Martial was still fresh it made us
realized that it didn’t the country as well as the Filipinos. Up to these days we all know that Martial Law
has still an impact to Filipinos especially to those families who did not get the justice. They said that
implementing Martial Law is to have the disciplinary to the people, however, the result is that Filipinos
got scared because of the law that former president Ferdinand Marcos was implementing and instead of
disciplining of the people they tend to get less in freedom, being tortured, being in danger, being raped,
massacres, being raid. Martial Law has never been a way to make the country to grow and make the
Filipinos better. As a new generation of this time, we want a change, a progress in ourselves and
country, we do want our fellow Filipinos to have a bright future for this country.

During the Martial Law was implemented so many lives have been wasted. As headed by the
former president of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos, he signed the Proclamation No. 1081 placing the
Philippines under Martial Law on September 21, 1972. Zamboanga City’s local government came under
presidential control for the first time since 1955. Throughout the Martial Law years, more than a
thousand of Zamboanga citizens including the other Filipinos in the Philippine as a whole were, killed,
tortured, raped, harassed, casted, or electrocuted at the genitalia. There were a some of Martial Law
survivors was able to interview about their times during the Martial Law, some of them said during
those times that there is no newspaper, television, being scared and all of them were under controlled
by the government. Many of those arrested and tortured during Marcos Martial Law were young
Filipinos aged 19-25. According to them during their time the police raid their house without asking but
immediately the guns were strike, punches, and kicks in them. One of the survivors said that he was able
to put in a room with no windows and according to practically every day he was tortured. And there is a
woman said that she was forced to removed her blouse and attached and electric wire to her breasts
and said it was too painful. Although they all experienced those kind of treatments but still they have
the courage to fight for their rights, for the betterment of the country as well as there would be no hope
for the people if they did not do the right thing during their times.

5. insights chuchu

It gives a huge impact to those Filipinos who were there and witnessed what was happened
during the time of Marcos. Reading such of the issues, history, and documentary about Martial Law
makes me realized that this generation is very lucky that they not experience those kind of treatment.
Although we can say that Martial law has advantage to the however, we cannot deny that it has been
the most tragic history that had happened in our country. Let say that it has an improvement in the
streets, public and rules were obeyed, have a curfew. However, we cannot change that they were a lot
of Filipinos were tortured, harassed, raped, killed, and other than that Marco’s family stole billions of
pesos in gold, money and property. Learning and knowing the history of Martial Law gives us the hope
to fight for what is right and how we can overcome those challenges.

There were lots of insight, points of view and arguments to whether martial law had negative or
positive impact to politics, economy, society, mindset, and culture of the Philippines. Some may say that
martial law was the darkest episode on the country’s very resent past and some may applauded Marcos
for imposing such system that result to a more “disciplined Filipinos”. But most of them who
experienced martial law, considered it as one of the horrible memory of the past. Although he has a nice
vision for the future, programs for economic development, concerning farmers, the tourist sector, and
even improvement in infrastructure were not properly planned that resulted to the Philippines to have
debt-driven-growth. Martial law was not just about suffering, let us accept the fact that Marcos also
done such a good thing in improving Philippines, but the wrong thing there is that the way he governed
and implemented Martial law.