(First of two parts)DON’T blame the millennials for people’s seeming indifference when it comes to the atrocities committed during martial law, a historian, a political analyst and two millennials cautioned on what appears to be historical amnesia that almost got another Marcos elected into high office in the May elections. When you look at it, there’s really no holistic history of the martial law era,” the historian said. “When you look at the martial law period, these were top-class people, so would you say all the cronies were bad? “[P]eople were willing to give (martial law) a chance the first couple of years …. “Maybe those who experienced the horrors of martial law wanted to protect their children from the trauma.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 20, 2016 16:41 UTC