Editing Ferdinand Marcos (section)

=====Civilian massacres=====
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[[File:1986 rally against the Marcos Dictatorship in which protesters hold up images of Escalante Massacre victims.jpg|thumb|Protesters hold up images of Escalante Massacre victims]]

It is hard to judge the full extent of massacres and atrocities that happened during the Marcos regime due to heavy press censorship at the time.<ref name="inqWarPeaceValor">{{cite news|last1=Tan|first1=Michael L.|title=War, peace and valor|url=http://opinion.inquirer.net/73439/war-peace-and-valor|newspaper=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]]|date=April 9, 2014}}</ref> Civilian massacres include the following:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Civilian massacres
!Location!!Date!!Group!!Perpetrator!!Casualties
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|[[Guinayangan]], [[Quezon]]|| February 1, 1981 || coconut farmers<ref name="ReyesAriateFQSAnniv20200311">{{Cite web |date=March 11, 2020 |title=Marcos and the First Quarter Storm Part II: Of Pillboxes and Firearms |url=https://verafiles.org/articles/marcos-and-first-quarter-storm-part-ii-pillboxes-and-firearm |website=Vera Files}}</ref> marched against the [[Coco Levy Fund scam|coco levy fund scam]].<ref name="marcosMartialLawNeverAgain" /> ||The military opened fire on a group of 3000<ref name="marcosMartialLawNeverAgain" /> ||2 dead<ref name="GavilanMassacresList">{{cite web |date=October 23, 2018 |title=Massacres, incidents of violence against farmers |url=https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/214987-list-massacres-incidents-of-violence-against-farmers-philippines}}</ref> and 27 wounded.<ref name="inqMartialLawMassacres">{{cite news |last1=Doyo |first1=Ma. Ceres P. |date=September 22, 2016 |title=Martial law massacres |url=http://opinion.inquirer.net/97552/martial-law-massacres |newspaper=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]]}}</ref>
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| [[Tudela, Misamis Occidental]] ||August 24, 1981 ||The Gumapons [[Subanon people|Subanon]] family||Paramilitary members of the "Rock Christ", a fanatical pseudo-religious sect|| 10 of the 12 persons in the house were killed, including an infant.<ref name="inqMartialLawMassacres" /><ref>{{Cite report |url=https://www.amnesty.org.ph/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/asa350251982en.pdf |title=Report of an Amnesty International Mission to the Republic of the Philippines, 11 – 28 November 1981 |date=November 28, 1981 |publisher=[[Amnesty International]]}}</ref>
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| [[Las Navas, Northern Samar]] ||September 15, 1981 || ([[Sag-od massacre]]) residents of Barrio Sag-od ||18 heavily armed security men of the San Jose Timber Corp. (owned by Enrile) who were also members of the Special Forces of the [[Integrated Civilian Home Defense Forces|Civilian Home Defense Force (CHDF)]] and allied with the Lost Command (a paramilitary group pursuing insurgents) 
|45 men, women and children killed. 13 inhabitants survived.<ref name="marcosMartialLawNeverAgain" /><ref name="inqMartialLawMassacres" />
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| [[Culasi, Antique]]|| December 19, 1981 || 400+ Culasi's mountain barangays protest a Philippine Constabulary company in their area and the reduction of taxes on farm products. ||Military
|Five dead and several injured<ref name="inqMartialLawMassacres" />
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|  [[Talugtug, Nueva Ecija]]|| January 3, 1982 || Five men rounded up were killed||Military ||The military suspected them to be communist supporters.<ref name="inqMartialLawMassacres" />
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| [[Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur]]|| February 12, 1982 || Possible NPA members||[[Ilaga]] || 12 dead.<ref name="inqMartialLawMassacres" />
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|  [[Hinunangan, Southern Leyte]]|| March 23, 1982 || Masaymon barrio|| 357th PC company ||8 dead. Six were 3–18 years of age<ref name="inqMartialLawMassacres" />
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| [[Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur]] || May 25, 1982 || Barangay Dimalinao 
|Airplanes bombed the community because communist rebels killed 23 soldiers two days earlier.<ref name="marcosMartialLawNeverAgain" />
|Initially 3 dead, 8 injured. Later 2 more dead.
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| [[Daet, Camarines Norte]] || June 14, 1982 || People from different barrios marched to denounce "fake elections", [[Coco Levy Fund scam|Cocofed]], and to demand an increase in [[copra]] prices.|| Military
|6 dead, 50+ injured<ref name="inqMartialLawMassacres" />
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| [[Pulilan, Bulacan]] || June 21, 1982 || Peasant organizers ||Military - 175th PC Company ||5 dead<ref name="inqMartialLawMassacres" />
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| [[Labo, Camarines Norte]] || June 23, 1982 || Unidentified men ||45th Infantry Battalion's Mabilo detachment ||5 dead.<ref name="inqMartialLawMassacres" />
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| Roxas, [[Zamboanga del Norte]] |||| Family members<ref name="marcosMartialLawNeverAgain" /><ref name="inqMartialLawMassacres" />
|Military/militia
|8 dead
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| [[Gapan|Gapan, Nueva Ecija]] |||| Bautista family ||Unidentified men in camouflaged uniforms||5 dead<ref name="marcosMartialLawNeverAgain" /><ref name="inqMartialLawMassacres" />
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| [[Escalante, Negros Occidental]] || September 20, 1985||  [[Escalante massacre]]<ref name="bulatlat-Escalante" /> 5000 farmers, students, fisherfolk, and religious clergy ||About 50 firemen, Regional Special Action Forces (RSAF) and [[Civilian Home Defense Forces|Civilian Home Defense Force]] (CHDF) || 20-30 dead<ref name="marcosMartialLawNeverAgain" />  30 wounded.<ref name="bulatlat-Escalante">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bulatlat.com/news/4-33/4-33-escalante.html |title=19 Years After 'Bloody Thursday,' Terror Still Stalks Escalante |last=Ombion |first=Karl G. |date= September 19, 2004 |website=www.bulatlat.com |access-date=June 14, 2018}}</ref>
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