When President Ferdinand E. Marcos issued Presidential Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire Philippines under martial law effective September 21, 1972, the country had a population of 37.9 million. Out of the present population of 111.3 million, 73.4 million or two out of every Filipinos, were born after that event.
The bottom-line question is this: Did martial law make the Philippines a more prosperous country? After all, its avowed purpose was to “save the Republic and build a New Society.” When martial law was imposed, Congress and the ongoing Constitutional Convention were shut down. Newspapers and radio-TV broadcast facilities were either closed or taken over by the military. Thousands were arrested and detained without charges, among them prominent elected officials and high-profile opposition personalities led by then Senator Benigno ‘Ninoy’ Aquino, Jr.
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