Human rights abuses of the Marcos dictatorship
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The dictatorship of 10th Philippine president Ferdinand E. Marcos in the 1970s and 1980s is historically remembered for its record of human rights abuses,[1][2] particularly targeting political opponents, student activists,[3] journalists, religious workers, farmers, and others who fought against his dictatorship. Based on the documentation of Amnesty International, Task Force Detainees of the Philippines, and similar human rights monitoring entities,[4] historians believe that the Marcos dictatorship was marked by 3,257 known extrajudicial killings,[4] 35,000 documented tortures, 737 'disappeared',[4] and 70,000 incarcerations.[5][6]
Some 2,520 of the 3,257 murder victims were tortured and mutilated before their bodies were dumped in various places for the public to discover - a tactic meant to sow fear among the public,[5][7] which came to be known as "salvaging".[8] Some victims were also subjected to cannibalism.[9]