Good afternoon classmates, good afternoon Ma’am Clemente.

We are
the group 8, and we are going to report about Rizal’s life in exile, trial
and execution.

Rizal as a martyr: Rizal is considered to be a martyr

because of his efforts to spark revolution in the hearts of
the indios. It lead to his eventual demise by means of a
firing squad, but he succeeded, and some would argue
that he had way more success than he ever planned. A
martyr is a person who is put to death or made to suffer
greatly because of religion or other beliefs.
Rizal was sentenced to death for “subversion” by the
dominant political forces. Subversion means the
undermining of the power and authority of an
established system or institution.
He represented a sector of society which had begun to
trouble the dominant political force, and therefore
constituted a real threat to the existing social order. His
ideology, which can be felt and analyzed on his literary
works, sparked the idea of revolution against the tyranny
of the Spaniards.
Crimes Accused to Rizal: The Spanish Colonial
government accused Rizal of three crimes: The founding
of La Liga Filipina, which they perceived as an “illegal
organization” whose single aim was to, and I quote,
“Perpetrate the crime of rebellion”. Some of the aims of
the league is to unite the whole archipelago into a
vigorous and homogenous organization, and to defend
against all violence and injustice, but it was perceived as
rebellion.
Along with the La Liga Filipina, he was accused of
promoting rebellion through his activities. The Noli Me
Tangere, the Annotation to Morga’s History of the
Philippines, the “El Filibusterismo”, and the various
articles which criticized the friars and suggested their
expulsion in order to win independence.
The penalty for these accusations is life imprisonment to
death, correctional imprisonment and a charge of 325 to
3,250 Pesetas or 110 to 1,106 pesos.