Police destroys Cordillera heroes monument
The demolished panels of the Anti-Chico Dam struggles monument. (Northern Dispatch photo)
“It is part of the government’s acts of historical revisionism or distorting and erasing the true history of the people’s resistance and heroism which remain relevant until today.”
By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA
MANILA The monument to the three martyrs of the anti-Chico Dam struggle during the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship was demolished by suspected police personnel, January 13, in Tinglayan, Kalinga province.
The metal panels featuring the faces of Macliing Dulag, Lumbaya Gayudan and Pedro Dungoc were removed from the Anti-Chico Dams Struggle Monument platform located along the Bontoc-Kalinga road.