Youthspeak: Students confront dark era through photos and audio accounts in Martial Law Museum
Text by Dino Mari L. Testa | Photos by Analy Labor, InterAksyon.com
September 23, 2012

On September 21, 2012, the 40th anniversary of declaration of Martial Law, InterAksyon.com, TV5′s online news portal, brought its exhibit to the University of the Philippines to remind the younger generation to never forget what happened in one of the darkest times of Philippine history. Though Martial Law was officially lifted on January 17, 1981, reports of human rights violations continued throughout the Marcos administration.

It is often said that this generation is too preoccupied with social networking, smartphones, and fancy clubs with blaring rhythmic noise, that they would probably care less about historic periods such as Martial Law.

But the Martial Law Museum proved otherwise as more than 100 students from the University of the Philippines last Friday morning showed up at the exhibit’s opening. Some were able to join a walking tour of the art exhibit and sat down afterwards for a discussion of the exhibit.

There were those who stayed in the digital audio booth to listen closely to the recorded and harrowing accounts of people who have been detained and tortured for expressing their political convictions. Other students lined up to help document through digital recording some of the 10,000 affidavits of victims’ accounts. Still, those who brought their own black or white to-shirts brought home a piece of history at the silk-screening station where iconic images of Martial Law’s social realist artworks were imprinted for free on their t-shirts.

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