IN PHOTOS: Inside the powerful EDSA 30 experiential museum
IN PHOTOS: Inside the powerful EDSA 30 experiential museum
The Orphans. There are children in white but grimy clothes. They’re behind barbed wire fences, and hold flyers with pictures of adults who have ‘forcibly disappeared’ — the desaparecidos.
By Paolo Abad, Rappler.com
MANILA – “Never again.” I’ve seen this phrase plastered all over my Facebook feed – two simple words, yet stark in meaning. “Never again” to “one of the darkest chapters” in Philippine history: the Marcos dictatorship, with its iron-fisted rule and wanton curtailment of rights.
Some of my former professors and the more vocal ones among my peers have posted about harrowing tales from the regime, and the martyred individuals who dared to make a stand against it such as Edgar Jopson (aka EdJop), Emmanuel Lacaba, and Evelio Javier – names I’ve also encountered while studying in university.
Even with the “imperfect democracy” we have, the 1986 EDSA Revolution, which toppled the dictatorship, was still the awakening from a nightmare for those who lived through those dark years.
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