Lahoz, Manuel C.

Of tyrants and martyrs : a political memoir / Manuel C. Lahoz - Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press, c2017. - xii, 323 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (page 299).

CHAPTER
1. Wartime and childhood Experiences --
2. Seminary education --
3. Vatican II Reforms --
4. My Assignment in aTinguian Community and How i met Mr. Arce --
5. The story of Nana Sabel --
6. Why I had to leave my parish --
7. A social worker and the nameless Passenger --
8. Arrest and detention --
9. Prison Struggles and Hunger strikes --
10. A movement to free all political prisoners --
11. Trial by the military tribunal and my transfer to camp crame --
12. The ifugao warrior --
13. The cellophil Chronicles --
14. Romancing human rights for twenty-two years --
15. The Purge --
16. The Deacon and the free farmers --
17. The Arrest, torture, and killing of Mr. Arce --
18. Ama Macli-ing Dulag: The man who damned the damns --
19. The last Mass of Padre Agatep --
20. A tribute to Bobby dela Paz, the Doctor of the poor --
21. The case of Conrado Balweg


This book by Manuel C. Lahoz is already valuable in its recounting of t he Martial Law days from the inside, as an antidote to current attempts to deodorize that particular era in Philippine history.

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LAHOZ, MANUEL C., 1942-
PHILIPPINES -- HISTORY
MARTIAL LAW -- PHILIPPINES

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