30,000 Pinoys victims of Marcos’ martial law

Military, Defense dept. turn overrecords of dark era

MORE than 30,000 people fell victims to warrantless arrests, enforced disappearances, unexplained deaths and other excesses by the military during the almost 20-year imposition of martial law under the administration of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos, whom two lawmakers wanted to be tagged as an “enemy of democrary.”