Thread by @SyLicoNgaAko

A former trusted aide, journo Primitivo Mijares authored a tell-all, first-hand account of the excesses & atrocities of the Marcos couple entitled, “The Conjugal Dictatorship" published at the height of martial law in 1976. He paid dearly with his son's life and his own.

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Despite Marcos’ bribe offer of $100,000, Mijares testified before the United States House subcommittee on international organizations, which heard cases of human rights violations.

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While staying in the US as an exile, Mijares accepted an invitation to return to the Philippines in 1977. He was last seen boarding a flight home with a known Marcos intelligence agent but had never been heard from since.

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Pure horror. The body of his youngest son, 15-year-old Boyet Mijares, was later found in the mountains of Antipolo with signs of severe torture. Reports had it that his captors made Mijares watch his son’s agony before he himself was killed.

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