MICHAEL “XIAO” CHUA

WHEN Ferdinand Marcos was president, he instituted the week of September 21 as History Week and that day as Thanksgiving Day. Because on that day in 1972, Marcos supposedly signed a historic move which saved democracy from the communist insurgency, and we have to thank his proclamation of Martial Law for it. What is ironic is that the imposition of Martial Law actually strengthened the communist rebellion by radicalizing the moderates. Its repressive ways left many people with no choice but to join the communist New People’s Army (NPA). One of them was Edgar Jopson — Edjop.

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