THE following is a chapter from my 2018 book, Debunked, which had 11 other chapters on the various aspects of martial law. Neither the Yellows nor any academic have questioned a single assertion or data in this article and the others. I do hope those claiming to be academics still condemning the martial law era as a "Dark Period" respond to rebut this article, and I promise to publish them in this space, as long as these comply with the editorial standards of this newspaper:
After Ferdinand Marcos' downfall in 1986, it had been an unchallenged dogma that one of the martial law period's most horrid aspects was its human rights abuses. This again appears to be another instance proving true the adage that "The victors write the history."
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