REACTION 

PAPER
(PROCLAMATION NO.1081)

Based on my understanding about the martial law the president of FerdinandMarcos the

philippines was the most controversial regime in the Philippinehistory and I thought at
first I can read the proclaimation under the martiallaw. it is started of violence so I got
confuse on what I read about. As I read Islowly understand about the proclamation R.A
1081 or the martial law onwhich the former president Ferdinand Marcos signed. Like
what I read theyare more flashbacks and most of the characters tells what
they'veexperienced way back 1970's. And base on my reading as what I
havelearned/understand, being activist was hard thing after the proclaimation ofthe
martial law, the government treated the activist as their enemy and theywere being
hunted and killed in the way of torturing them and way back totheir present time, we all
know that it is normal to us the situation like ourfriends/trator us for their common
good or for their safety in this situation. Itis hard for us to forgive them though in some
way we forgive them but. Afterwhat happened in the past, our memory is still being
good. And our memorystays as what it is and about the declaration issued under
proclamation 1081suspend the civil Rights and imposed military authority in the
country.Marcos defend the declaration stressing the need for extra power to quell
herising wave of violence allegedly caused by communists.In September 1972 Marcos
declared martial law, claiming that it was the lastdefense against the rising disorder
caused by increasingly violent studentdemonstrations, the allegedthreats of communist
insurgency by the newCommunist Party of the Philippines (CPP), and the Muslim
separatistmovement of the Moro National Liberation Front(MNLF). One of his
firstactions was to arrest opposition politicians in Congress andthe Constitutional
Convention. Initial public reaction to martial law wasmostly favourable except in
Muslim areas of the south, where a separatistrebellion, led by the MNLF, broke out in
1973. Despite halfhearted attemptsto negotiate a cease-fire, the rebellion continued to
claim thousands ofmilitary and civilian
casualties. Communist insurgency expanded with thecreation of the
National Democratic Front (NDF), an organization embracingthe CPP and other
communist groups.