UNIT 1: PHILIPPINE

HISTORY AND
LITERATURE
MODULE 3:
AUTHORITARIANISM
QUESTIONS:

1. What do you know about Martial

Law and Ferdinand Marcos?
2. Why are there people who post
Facebook statuses that are
nostalgic about martial law?
3. As new generation of Filipinos,
what can we learn from this period
INTERVIEW:

1. What do you remember about

Ferdinand Marcos?
2. What do you remember about martial
law?
3. Do you think martial law was a good or
a bad time in Philippine history? Why
do you say so?
4. Why should we study this period in our
history?
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. was a
Filipino politician and kleptocrat who was the
tenth President of the Philippines from 1965 to
1986. A leading member of the right-wing New
Society Movement, he ruled as a dictator under
martial law from 1972 until 1981.

BORN: 11 September 1917,

DIED: 28 September 1989,
FULL NAME: Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin
Marcos
PRESIDENTIAL TERM: 30 December 1965 –
25 February 1986
EDUCATION: UNIVERSITY OF THE
PHILIPPINE COLLEGE OF LAW (1939),
Backgroung Knowledge:

Martial law began in September 21, 1972 under

Proclamation No. 1081, and the Marcos babies (those
who were born froom 1964 to 1986) are only beginning
to write about this segment of the past. When martial
law began, there was nt much resistance to it, as people
believed that it would curb the insurgency of various
rebel groups at the time. Although it did lessen crimes in
the country, anyone who went against President Marcos
was jailed, and in many cases, disappeared without
trace. According to Philippine-History. Org, 30, 000
politicians, students, and journalists were “detained by
military compounds unders under the President’s
command,” and many news publications and television
news broadcasts were closed or controlled by the Marcos