FACT CHECK: Youtuber’s claim that Marcos Sr. is the ‘true hero’ of 1986 EDSA People Power misleads audiences

A four-minute video uploaded on a YouTube channel claimed the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. was the “true hero” of the 1986 EDSA People Power. 

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Duterte, like Marcos, needs to be accounted for abuses, says activists

Local activists held a rally on the 49th commemoration of Martial Law on September 21 in Freedom Park as they dissent against Duterte government's atrocities to human right that they say is similar to the late dictator.

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Grace Mahinay during her detention in Camp Domingo Leonor in Davao City in 1990. (Photo from Grace Mahinay)

Neng: First woman tortured by Davao PC during Martial Law

Grace Mahinay, an activist during the Martial Law said: “The arresting Sergeant was even proud that I was the first woman they tortured.”

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BONIFACIO AT 150 EXHIBIT

Heading to the 150th birthday of National Hero Andres Bonifacio, leader of the Katipunan Movement that fought for indpendence against colonial Spain, collector Rene Adapon exhibited coins and stamps in the days of the Supremo at SM Annex Ecoland, Davao this Monday to Thursday. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

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