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Sep 22, 2022, 20 tweets

#ML50 What was happening 50 years ago today. September 23, 1972 the real date of martial law. From the comprehensive timeline available in the #PhilippineDiaryProject: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… (part 1)

#ML50 What was happening 50 years ago today. September 23, 1972 the real date of martial law. From the comprehensive timeline available in the #PhilippineDiaryProject: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… (part 2)

#ML50 What was happening 50 years ago today. September 23, 1972 the real date of martial law. From the comprehensive timeline available in the #PhilippineDiaryProject: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… (part 3)

#ML50 What was happening 50 years ago today. September 23, 1972 the real date of martial law. From the comprehensive timeline available in the #PhilippineDiaryProject: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… (part 4)

#ML50 What was happening 50 years ago today. September 23, 1972 the real date of martial law. From the comprehensive timeline available in the #PhilippineDiaryProject: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… (part 5)

#ML50 What was happening 50 years ago today. September 23, 1972 the real date of martial law. From the comprehensive timeline available in the #PhilippineDiaryProject: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… (part 6)

#ML50 What was happening 50 years ago today. September 23, 1972 the real date of martial law. From the comprehensive timeline available in the #PhilippineDiaryProject: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… (part 7)

#ML50 What was happening 50 years ago today. September 23, 1972 the real date of martial law. From the comprehensive timeline available in the #PhilippineDiaryProject: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… (part 8)

#ML50 What was happening 50 years ago today. September 23, 1972 the real date of martial law. From the comprehensive timeline available in the #PhilippineDiaryProject: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… (part 9)

#ML50 What was happening 50 years ago today. September 23, 1972 the real date of martial law. From the comprehensive timeline available in the #PhilippineDiaryProject: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… (part 10)

#ML50 What was happening 50 years ago today. September 23, 1972 the real date of martial law. From the comprehensive timeline available in the #PhilippineDiaryProject: philippinediaryproject.com/2021/08/27/a-t… (part 11)

See the front pages from September 21-24, 1972. #ML50:

Here is a #PhilippineDiaryProject feature comparing and contrasting the two first person accounts of the establishment of the dictatorship: philippinediaryproject.com/2013/09/21/the…

Why the real anniversary of #ML50 is today, September 23, and not September 21: officialgazette.gov.ph/featured/decla…

Infographics on martial law #ML50: officialgazette.gov.ph/featured/infog…

#ML50 in context through actual newsreels from 1965-86. See actual footage of the FQS; the ConCon; of Metrocom chasing students near the Ateneo; of detainees in Camp Crame; see independent media reports, and state propaganda and critical documentaries: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

From The Historical Atlas of the Republic, #ML50's timeline. archive.org/details/histor…

My presentation last Sept. 21 at Cebu's Press Freedom Week, a thread:

ICYMI #ML50:

#ML50 a thread of recollections by people arrested when martial law was proclaimed:

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