Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos

Frame 1: At 7:15 pm on September 23, 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos announced on television that

he had placed the entirety of the Philippines under martial law. This marked the beginning of a 14-year
period of one-man rule in the country.

Frame 2: Ferdinand Marcos ordered the armed forces to prevent or suppress any act of rebellion.
Curfew hours were enforced, group assemblies were banned, privately-owned media facilities
shuttered.
Frame 3: Those considered threats to Marcos such as prominent politicians and members of the media
were rounded up and arrested by members of the military and the notorious Philippine Constabulary. 

Frame 4: About 70,000 people were imprisoned and 34,000 tortured, according to Amnesty
International, while 3,240 were killed from 1972 to 1981.

Frame 5: Thousands of people were subject to various forms of torture. Prisoners were electrocuted,
beaten up, and strangled. They were burned with a flat iron or cigars. Women were stripped naked and
raped, various objects forced into their genitals.
Frame 6: From February 22–25, 1986, there was a sustained campaign of civil resistance against regime
violence and electoral fraud. This was called the People Power Revolution or the EDSA Revolution.

Frame 7: The millions that gathered for the 1986 People Power Revolution, the culmination of a series of
public protests, was a nation wresting itself, as one, back from a dictator.

Frame 8: The protests, fueled by the resistance and opposition from years of governance by President
Marcos and his cronies, culminated with the absolute ruler and his family fleeing Malacañang Palace to
exile in Hawaii. Ninoy Aquino's widow, Corazon Aquino, was immediately installed as the eleventh
president as a result of the revolution. This marked the end of Marcos’s dictatorship and reign.