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Never Forget | Cristina Bawagan | TEDxDiliman


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after a month the judge finally decided

that I could be released on bail so we

were so jubilant my mother and I but one

day she said Tina let’s go back to camp

Oh leave us let’s get your clothes so

momma drove me and she brought my two

nieces with me and they were just high

school kids at that time and one of them

is here right now so we went to camp

believe us so happy and we were going to

get my clothes when we got to the camp

the camp commander said I’m sorry ma’am

he told my mother I cannot release your

daughter why not said my mother well we

just received this presidential

commitment order I was arrested

may 27 1981 martial law was supposedly

lifted January 17 1981 so the President

had to invent and make up ways so that

he could in indefinitely detain

detainees that were released by judges

so in my case

this was slap in my face and my mother

was so courageous she never left me my

two nieces never left me copied busy

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come commander and I never felt so safe

in my life Thank You Lina and so my

mother we stayed there until evening and

my mother told the camp commander

general if you do not release my

daughter this evening I will call the

president because I have a hotline to

him this very minute and the camp

commander believed her because my father

was in the military too he was a naval

officer a long time ago so he believed

her and we all went home but I was only

one of the more than 75,000 735

individuals who have filed claims at the

Human Rights victims claims board and

because of this I would like to say that

what I experienced was really nothing

nothing compared to the rest nothing

compared to Katrina Herrera

who was electrocuted in her nipples

nothing compared to Jan Kimpo my former

my brother-in-law who was electrocuted

in his genitals nothing compared to my

sister who was water cured you know

Perelman sensation that lulu Nareesha at

nothing compared to Dorothy

devera who was raped for several months

impregnated and the Quran enforceable

abortion so napa car ami Yumi by nagging

desaparecidos now and it is not easy to

admit that one is a rape victim it is

not easy for us to say that we were

maliciously handled by the military I

know of a personal I know personally of

friends who cannot do this day tell

their story

and I cannot claim them I cannot blame

them at all this is a photo of women in

Sultan Kudarat they come from alleys

bomb

a place where there was a massacre of

more than a thousand men they were their

husbands now these women and their

children were victims of rape this one

it was only in 2014 when they finally

came out with her story

and one woman for the very first time

said that she was raped by the military

in 1974 and when her husband heard it

you know what he did he left her so how

can you blame the women who cannot tell

their story to this day but for those of

us who can tell our stories we have to

kill them again and again and again to

all the people who are willing to listen

because we can never forget this and we

have to tell the next generation what

really happened during martial law and

for this reason various initiatives have

already been taken by several schools

how to teach martial law in various

subjects for instance in psi where dr.

medicine is an alumnus we have this

bouquet at packing a lie

we bring the kids tube and pipe namana

Bayani and there they pay tribute to the

peace my dears many have died alumni of

psi sometimes we just have it in the

flag ceremony we sometimes invite older

batches to share their stories to our

students and so we have here some older

batches some are the relatives of some

students who had died some grade 7

students a few years a few years back

expressed what they learned about

martial law what they learned from these

speakers would talk to them in each and

every classroom see Larkin he said there

was no freedom of expression the other

one said besides students made history

because they were actively involved and

one student recently a great time

students said I’m a scholar Mumbai and

how can I make a difference the patent a

keying dunno a column an egg a beaten

big long

and data so speak up Marcos is not a

hero

so recently when the Supreme Court

decided that Marcos be buried at the

laghima living animal Bayani what did

the students do they staged a march from

our school grounds up to the baton died

of pneumonia by Yanni we stayed there

until evening and lit candles for our

psi heroes you know at this time we

spoke on stage and based I told the

students I cannot feel anything I cannot

feel the pressure on which we can all

see you on youtube or on Facebook today

all I feel is jubilation because I see

you here we used to be speaking about

this in the classroom I used to be

talking about martial law and how RP

side my tears used to speak out and be

active or to change our country but now

you are there and you have marched and I

am so very happy and I’m ready to retire

now several other schools have done a

lot to like De La Salle so bell

they have had dance ten days in

September only devoted to martial law

Miriam College they invite speakers the

answer students to conduct interviews

and martial law

yupi that their children go to been

titled amana by Yanni and they invite

speakers to talk on martial law at the

mayo english unit in english department

every year they invite us to speak on

martial law Susanne Kimpo who is my

sister-in-law and I go there regularly

sabumisu in a marathon and Riya an

elementary school very commendable

because they have staged a play on

martial law and the kids their

elementary school pupils all of them had

a role to play

what better formed what better way to

teach the children about martial law

forms of torture were depicted in a very

artistic fashion Valentino Mazzola

sobrang Metapod

pero alum Ning economy RA and poignant

scenes evoke feelings reminiscent of

martial law and over there you would see

that there are pictures of the heroes of

Marciano

and so the kids get to learn about these

people by staging their play three for

the euphoria of the answer evolution was

relived on stage it’s all over Marcos

fleece but then again is it really over

how can teachers a various subjects

teach about martial law well for the

Humanities we could emphasize unity

courage perseverance taking a stand and

fighting for justice and let the

students practice this themselves for

values education simple living honesty

what happened to the ten billion dollars

stolen by the Marcus’s for math and

economics show the data to dispel the

myth of a golden age that poverty

significantly worsened during that time

that the peso dollar exchange rate

really went down that the Philippine

foreign debt really rose and so on and

so on and so forth

now physical education teachers could

also teach their students have them

prepare an obstacle course and let them

show the true cities during martial law

the same way that was done during the

greatly and run in noopy now although

there is much room for improvement our

of our current textbooks there is no

dearth of material for the teaching of

martial law and I would just like to

cite one but there are so many others

and one of them was written by dr. the

Lisa himself but I couldn’t mention it

here anymore for a lack of time because

in a plastic tone Ichigo I am this is

one prepared by the Commission and human

rights

it has oral histories which are very

good and which the students can watch

and then learn by just watching it there

are plays and musicals one directed by

Vicente Vincent inada upon a former

Lorenzo Tejada and other place which are

shown at the pan Parag nomina by Yanni

now what propels us to never

for a gap not hatred definitely not

vengeance but it is a passion to uncover

the truth to learn from the past to

inculcate values like respect for human

rights like love of country like

our Constitution mandates us to teach

about human rights by educating the

youth and teaching about human rights

about martial law is teaching about

human rights it is not an option it is

our obligation let us be inspired by the

words of enya’s of no limit on Harry

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finally I am personally inspired by the

words from a poem which my former

husband who was slain used to sing it

in the martini picky

well my soui

maraming salamat

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