Maria Elena Ang was a 23-year-old UP Journalism student when she was arrested and detained. She was beaten, electrocuted, water cured, and sexually violated during her detention. Dr Juan Escandor was a young doctor with UP-PGH who was tortured and killed by the Philippine Constabulary. When his body was recovered, a pathologist found that his skull had been broken open, emptied and stuffed with trash, plastic bags, rags and underwear. His brain was stuffed inside his abdominal cavity. Boyet Mijares was only 16 years old in 1977 when he received a call that his disappeared father (whistleblower and writer Primitivo Mijares) was still alive. The caller invited the younger Mijares to see him. A few days later, Boyet's body was found dumped outside Manila, his eyeballs protruding, his chest perforated with multiple stab wounds, his head bashed in, and his hands, feet and genitals mangled. Trinidad Herrera was a community leader in Tondo when she was arrested in 1977. In this video she recounts being electrocuted on her fingers, breasts, and vagina until her interrogators were pleased with her answers to their questions. Neri Colmenares was an 18-year-old activist when he was arrested and tortured by members of the Philippine Constabulary. Aside from being strangled and made to play Russian Roulette, he witnessed fellow detainees being electrocuted through wires inserted into their penises, as well as being buried alive in a steel drum. Hilda Narciso was a church worker when she was arrested, confined in a small cell, fed a soup of worms and rotten fish, and repeatedly gang-raped.

Archimedes Trajano, a student of Mapua Institute of Technology, who unfortunately met his end in the hands of the henchmen of Marcos's eldest daughter, Imee Marcos.

During an open forum at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, the then-21-year-old questioned Imee on her capability to lead the youth and told her that she only became the head of the Kabataang Barangay because she was the president’s daughter. He also questioned her on the human rights abuses being committed by her father. 

Ma. Elena Ang, Dr. Escandor, Boyet Mijares, Trinidad Herrera, Neri Colmenares, and Hilda Narciso were just a few of the many Filipinos who suffered horrific human rights abuses committed by the Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand E. Marcos and Imelda Romuladez Marcos. Their children Imelda Jr. (Imee), Ferdinand Jr.  (Bongbong) and Irene enjoyed a life of privilege, even of luxury, at our expense.

FERDINAND E. MARCOS is listed  in the 1986 Guinness Book of Records as the MOST CORRUPT LEADER in the history of  the world.

He and his wife Imelda Romualdez Marcos spent the people's money as though it were their own. Marcos plundered the Philippine treasury to the tune of US$10billion, or450 billion Philippine pesos during his more than 20 years in power. 

The Conjugal Dictatorship did the foregoing, and more, with impunity after Ferdinand Marcos declared MARTIAL LAW on September 21, 1972.

Directly after doing so, Marcos abolished Congress, padlocked all the radio and TV networks as well as all newspapers and magazines in the Philippines. In doing so, he trampled upon the freedom of the press and freedom of speech. He likewise took away the Filipino people's freedom of assembly through presidential decrees, thereby SUPPRESSING any form of dissent. 

Marcos did not stop there. The Philippine military and police committed tortures, disappearances, and salvagings to terrorize the people and silence those who dared oppose his dictatorship. These human rights violations are documented and have been reported by international human rights organizations such as Amnesty International. 

The assassination of Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr. on August 21, 1983 unleashed all the pent-up rage of our people, moving them to join the anti-Marcos protest movement. The courageous and self-sacrificial act Corazon C. Aquino, in accepting the challenge to serve as the unifying symbol of the anti-Marcos protest movement, culminated in the EDSA People Power revolution. On February 25, 1986, our people were delivered at last from the oppressive rule of Marcos, who fled with his family to Hawaii. 

Yet TODAY, 30 years since that day of deliverance, Marcos's son, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., is RUNNING for Vice President. Worse, if surveys are to be believed, this Dictator's son is leading the race for the second highest post in our government. 

Bongbong Marcos has repeatedly REFUSED to apologize or even acknowledge his father's sins against our people. In so refusing, he is in effect manifesting that he does not see anything wrong with the abuses, not only of his father, but also of his mother. This refusal bodes ill for our freedoms, for our democracy, which we fought for and won back in 1986.  

The MARCOSES must not, MUST NEVER AGAIN, be allowed to acquire the power to steal from our people and take our freedoms.