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"When he declared the martial law in 1972, Marcos claimed that he
had done so in response to the "communist threat" posed by the newly-
founded Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), and the sectarian
"rebellion" of the Mindanao Independence Movement (MIM).“

During the martial law most of Filipinos remembered it as a painful

situation that our nation had been experience. Some of Filipinos
describe it like Gun shots, cries, and screams that Filipinos has been
controlled, tortured, imprisoned and killed. However it has a side
positive side also are it eradicate crimes and lessen the communists
threat.