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At 7:15 p.m. on September 23, 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos announced on television that he had placed the Philippines under martial law, [1] [2] stating 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 Muslim Independence Movement (MIM).
Proclamation No. 1081 was the document which contained formal proclamation of martial law in the Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos, as announced to the public on September 23, 1972.
Journalism during the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines—a fourteen year period between the declaration of Martial Law in September 1972 until the People Power Revolution in February 1986—was heavily restricted under the dictatorial rule of President Ferdinand Marcos in order to suppress political opposition and prevent criticism of his administration.
On September 23, 1972, Ferdinand Marcos announced that he had placed the entirety of the Philippines, including Muslim Mindanao, under Martial law. While Matalam's MIM was already defunct, one of its former members, Nur Misuari , established the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) a month after the declaration of Martial Law, on October 21 ...
Ferdinand Marcos' martial law years may have been known for its numerous human rights violations, but it was a "necessity," the Malacañang Palace said in an official statement released yesterday ...
One of Marcos' rationalizations for martial law stated that there was a need to "reform society" [157]: 66 by placing it under the control of a "benevolent dictator" who could guide the undisciplined populace through a period of chaos. [157]: 29 [212] He referred to this social engineering exercise as the bagong lipunan or "new society".
The history of the Philippines, from 1965 to 1986, covers the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos.The Marcos era includes the final years of the Third Republic (1965–1972), the Philippines under martial law (1972–1981), and the majority of the Fourth Republic (1981–1986).
The Marcos regime officially attributed the explosions communist "urban guerillas", [35] and Marcos included them in the list of "inciting events" which served as rationalizations for his declaration of Martial Law. [36] Marcos's political opposition at the time questioned the attribution of the explosions to the communists, noting that the ...