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Ferdinand Marcos is the 10th president of the Philippines and placed the country under Martial Law starting from 1971 up until 1981.
The Martial Law targeted the governments' political opponents, student activists, journalists, religious workers, farmers, and anyone who spoke out against the Marcos dictatorship.
According to the documentation done by the Amnesty International and other human rights organization, there are an approximate 3,257 confirmed extrajudicial killings, 35,000 cases of torture, 77 cases of disappearances, and about 70,000 cases of incarcerations.
Out of the 3,257 murder victims are known to have been mutilated before (and sometimes after) they are killed. Their bodies are later dumped in random places, leaving the public to discover them.
It was a tactic intended to sow fear into the country. This act came to be known as "salvaging".
The military seized major news outlets, effectively shutting them down, and controlling the flow of information through one newspaper company, The Daily Express.
After the assassination of Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, a known critic of the dictator, the people swept his widow, Corazon Aquino, to presidency in an event known as the EDSA People Power of 1986.
The People Power forced Ferdinand Marcos and his family (wife, Imelda Marcos, and their children) to flee to Hawaii, reportedly stashing crates of cash, jewels, gold bars, and deposit slips that allowed the family to live in luxury in exile while the Philippines suffered economically due to the incurred debts made by the Marcoses.
On September 28, 1989, Ferdinand Marcos died and his body was brought back to the Philippines in a refrigerated crypt in Ilocos Norte where his son and eldest daughter are still serving as politicians.
On November 18, 2016, under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, as soon as it was passed in the Supreme Court, Ferdinand Marcos' body was placed in the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Cemetery for Heroes) amidst the protest of some opposition groups in the country.
Efforts have been made to bring Imelda Marcos, the dictator's widow, and his children to justice like recovering the Marcoses' ill-gotten wealth as well as for the human rights abuses that happened during the regime.
Imelda Marcos continued to be free despite all the cases filed against her and have held positions as congresswoman of Leyte in 1992, second district in Ilocos Norte in 2010, and was re-elected in 2013 and 2016.
Imee Marcos, the dictator's eldest daughter, has served as a Senator and still is until the present.
The late dictator's son, Bongbong Marcos Jr., is on the running to become the next president of the Philippines in the 2022 National Elections. In May 2022, he was declared as the 17th president of the Republic of the Philippines.
