Dr Juan Escandor was a young

doctor with UP-PGH who was

tortured and killed by the
Philippine Constabulary. When
My mom was just 10 his body was recovered, a
yrs. old when her dad pathologist found that his skull
was shot straight in the had been broken open,
head, emptied and stuffed with trash,
plastic bags, rags and
underwear. His brain was
My grandfather hide in My teacher can never stuffed inside his abdominal
cavity.
a hallowed out tree have children. She was
trunk for a day as they repeatedly raped during
were dragging out Martial Law. Once with
people from his village a broomstick, once with
in the province. a loaded gun.

Tatay’s 1982 autopsy

shows a gunshot
wounds, most fired
close range.

My father said if you My lola, with her hands

want to be a writer you held tight by a couple
have to ready to either military men, was
get killed. We studied forced to write down
science instead. “Marcos” during B6 Nat
‘l Election. Maria Elena Ang was a
23-year-old UP
You know, I grew up Journalism student
during martial law, I when she was arrested
studied law. There was and detained. She was
only a freedom beaten, electrocuted,
Constitution before. water cured, and
Boyet Mijares was only 16 years old
in 1977 when he received a call that sexually violated during
his disappeared father her detention.
(whistleblower and writer Primitivo
Mijares) was still alive. The caller
invited the younger Mijares to see
him. A few days later, Boyet's body
was found dumped outside Manila,
his eyeballs protruding, his chest
perforated with multiple stab
wounds, his head bashed in, and his
hands, feet and genitals mangled. Hilda Narciso was a
church worker when
she was arrested,
confined in a small cell,
fed a soup of worms
Trinidad Herrera was a and rotten fish, and
community leader in Tondo repeatedly gang-raped.
when she was arrested in
1977. In this video she
recounts being
electrocuted on her
fingers, breasts, and vagina
until her interrogators
were pleased with her
answers to their questions.