(21 Sep 2022)
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Manila, Philippines - 21 September 2022
1. Protesters marching on street holding banner  
2. Banner reading (English/Tagalog) "Never again, never forget martial law! (Ferdinand) Marcos - dictator, thief!"
3. Various of protesters marching
4. Various of protesters carrying mock coffins
5. Various of martial law survivor Bonifacio Ilagan talking on stage
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bonifacio Ilagan, Filipino martial law survivor:
"But now that all this is happening, I feel like the trauma has returned and it has made my life, in my waning years, a lot more difficult."
7. Close of t-shirt with text reading (English) "Never again ML (martial law)"
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Bonifacio Ilagan, martial law survivor:
"I never imagined that after 50 years, it's going to be the son (of Ferdinand Marcos, Ferdinand Marcos Jr.) that we are fighting against now."
Reporter off screen asks (English): "(Do) you call him your president?"
Ilagan: "I cannot for the life of me call him my president."
9. Various of martial law survivor Satur Ocampo wearing t-shirt with text reading (English) "Never again, never forget"
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Satur Ocampo, martial law survivor:
"So we have to watch them very carefully and keep being able to raise issues whenever they do this system (martial law). It's round two against the Marcos's. I hope he does not continue."
11. Various of mock casket with writings on top reading (English) "Here lies the hopes and dreams of the people under the Marcos-Duterte referring to (and former president Rodrigo Duterte) regime"
STORYLINE:
Survivors of torture and other atrocities under Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos on Wednesday marked his martial law declaration 50 years ago by pressing their demand for justice and an apology from his son — now the country's president in a stunning reversal of fortunes for the once reviled family.
Activists held street protests, a musical concert and unveiled a documentary at the state-run University of the Philippines.
They say the manifestations were aimed at preventing a repeat of the abuses and plunder that began after Marcos imposed martial law in the Philippines in September 1972, a year before his term was to end.
The dictator was ousted in an army-backed "People Power" uprising in 1986 and died three years later in U.S. exile without admitting any wrongdoing, including accusations that he, his family and cronies amassed an estimated $5 billion to $10 billion while he was in power.
His son, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who took office in June after a landslide electoral victory, delivered a speech at the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
A small group of Filipino-American protesters hounded him and at one point managed to get close and booed him and repeatedly yelled "Never again to martial law!" as he alighted from a convoy and walked into a building with security escorts.
He or his key officials have not issued any statement about the martial law anniversary as of Wednesday afternoon.
For many of the survivors of abuses under Marcos, now mostly in their 70s and 80s, the anniversary brought back the trauma and painful memories of fellow victims, who either were killed by state forces or remain missing.
They condemned efforts to gloss over the atrocities and portray the martial law years in pro-Marcos social media as a "golden era."
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