This photo taken on February 9, 2022 shows Loretta Ann P. Rosales, a victim of the country's martial law in the 1970s, showing a mug shot from when she was arrested after martial law was declared, during an interview with AFP at her residence in Quezon City, suburban Manila. The son of the country's late dictator, Ferdinand Marcos Junior, is the clear leader in the May elections, running on a campaign that steers public discourse away from the crimes of his father's dictatorship while preaching unity and mapping a path out of the pandemic.

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MANILA, Philippines — Ferdinand Marcos Junior's quest for the Philippine presidency has Loretta Rosales recoiling in horror remembering the nightmare she went through standing up to his late father's brutal rule.

 

Tortured and gang-raped by the elder Marcos' troops under martial law in the 1970s, the former history professor, now 82, told AFP she fears history will repeat itself.

 

"I don't want this to happen again to my people," said Rosales, an activist turned politician who has asked the government to disqualify the younger Marcos, nicknamed "Bongbong", from the May 9 poll.

 

Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/02/23/2162837/martial-law-torture-victim-etta-rosales-relives-horror-dictators-son-rises

 

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