Forbidden Memory (2016)

Forbidden Memory 2016 / Forbidden Memory 2016 / The Greatest Marcos Horror Story Never Told

The documentary revolves around the collective memory of people on the September 1974 Malisbong Massacre which is part of the overall counter insurgency effort of Ferdinand Marcos during the Martial Law. At least 1,500 Moro residents of the coastal barangay of Malisbong in Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat were killed not known to the majority of the Filipinos.[1] The film states, ‟summons remembrances and memories of the fateful days in September 1974 when about 1,000 men from Malisbong and neighboring villages in Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat province, were killed while 3,000 women and children were forcibly taken to naval boats stationed nearby where they encountered unspeakable horror. The genocide and atrocities were perpetrated under the dark years of the Martial Law regime of Ferdinand Marcos.‟