ILOILO CITY — Seventy-three-year-old Lolita Sanchez-Mabayag joined on Friday a group of protesters wearing black and holding placards along Bonifacio Drive in Iloilo City. “I am a victim of martial law and I can you tell how terrifying it was,” she told the Inquirer. She was among about 30 protesters calling for the lifting of the declaration of martial law in Mindanao. ADVERTISEMENT“Those who did not experienced it and was not victimized by martial law may be welcoming it now,” she said. Militant groups raised alarm on what they see as conditioning by the government to expand the martial law coverage from Mindanao to the whole country.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 26, 2017 10:30 UTC