THE AKBAYAN Youth group has urged the Department of Education and the Commission on Higher Education to include Martial Law topics in the curriculum.

The group’s chairperson, Dr. RJ Naguit, said that the youth “deserve to know the truth about the Marcos dictatorship.”

He made the call as the country marked on Sept. 21 the 48th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law by President Ferdinand Marcos.

“DepEd and CHED are legally mandated to include Martial Law human rights violations into the education curriculum, whether primary, secondary, or tertiary. But if the House of Representatives found no injustice in passing a bill declaring Marcos’ birthday a holiday, clearly our educational institutions need to step up against historical revisionism,” Naguit said in a statement.

Naguit called on the educational bodies to give a concrete report on the inclusion of Martial Law topics in Social Science curricula.

“Every year that schools fail to teach Martial Law is a whole batch of students prone to being victims of the lies spread by the Marcoses,” he said.

“Kung ayaw natin ng fake news, sana tutol din  tayo sa fake history. Let us not be complicit to the historical revision of the Marcoses and take a stand as a nation,” Naguit said.