Dark days of martial law under Philippines’ Marcos

Painful past: A child actor holding a picture of a victim of the martial law era at the People Power Experiential Museum in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City. — Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network

Manila: ROBERTO Verzola used to watch how his uncle and older cousins would slaughter a pig when he was a child.

“As soon as it realised something bad was going to happen, it would shriek for dear life,” said Verzola, a student activist and writer for the student paper of the University of the Philippines Diliman in the early 1970s.