Marcos was mainly concerned with perpetuating his personal hold on power by favoring family members, friends, and other cronies. Thus, Marcos simply created new elites or “oligarchs” rather than abolish them — supposedly one of the main justifications for declaring martial law. Those who dared challenge the regime’s monopoly on power ... were intimidated, imprisoned, kidnapped, tortured or summarily executed.— March 2 statement on the Marcos regime, signed by the presidents, faculty and staff of Ateneo universities in Manila, Naga, Cagayan de Oro, Zamboanga and Davao

The statement signed by the presidents of Jesuit-run universities in the country, and more than 500 of their faculty and staff rightly takes issue with Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. over what they called “the shameless refusal to acknowledge the crimes of the martial law regime.”

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