Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 11) – Relatives of Martial Law victims have rejected the call of former senator Bongbong Marcos – the son of a late dictator, whose rule was tainted by human rights violations and corruption – to change the contents in Philippine history textbooks that might have tarnished his family’s reputation.

Erin Tañada, the grandson of Lorenzo Tañada, who was detained for speaking against the Marcos regime, slammed the proposal of Bongbong, saying this is yet another move of the Marcoses to rewrite and “erase” history.

“This is a clear move at historical revisionism and another desperate attempt by the Marcoses to erase the memory of the horrors of Martial Law and absolve the sins of their father,” Erin Tañada, said in a statement on Saturday.

For his part, human rights lawyer Chel Diokno, whose father Jose "Pepe" Wright Diokno was arrested by the dictatorship in 1972, advised Filipinos to be wary of some people who are allegedly abusing the justice system to revise history.

The lawyer also noted that there are court records, showing Marcoses’ wealth was ill-gotten, as well as laws to compensate Martial Law’s human rights victims, including the one authored by Tañada, the Martial Law Compensation and Recognition Law.

Tañada and Diokno were reacting to Marcos’ claim on Friday that he and his family are victims of prolonged “political propaganda” which supposedly revised historical information about their family that is being taught on today’s youth.

The son of the late strongman also issued his plea after the Sandigandbayan junked five ill-gotten-wealth related cases involving his family and close associates last year. There are still pending cases in relation to around $10 billion (roughly ₱500 billion today) that Marcoses and their cronies allegedly plundered from the government’s coffers when Marcos was still president.

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Lawmaker to Education dep’t: Conduct anti-historical revisionism review

Meanwhile, ACT Teachers Representative France Castro called on the Department of Education to conduct an anti-historical revisionism review due to reports that there are updated versions of history textbooks that do not cast the Marcos family in a bad light.

“We urge the Department of Education to conduct an anti-historical revisionism review as there are already reports of textbooks containing what Bongbong Marcos wants in textbooks,” Castro said in a statement on Saturday.

The House representative also thumbed down the proposal of Marcos to update the education materials in favor of his influential family, saying agreeing to him is tantamount to “nullifying the sacrifices of those who lived and died fighting tyranny and plunder. It denies justice to the countless who were tortured, murdered, and disappeared in the name of Marcos and his dictatorship, and the entire Filipino nation whose democracy and economy it trampled.”

Around 70,000 people were imprisoned, 30,000 tortured, more than 3,000 killed, and hundreds disappeared during the Martial Law era, Tañada said, citing data from international human rights group Amnesty International.

Castro, a former educator, also said that teachers would not allow any historical revisionism as they have a responsibility to teach “unrevised” history to youth, adding they are in the frontline, bearing the brunt of the purported sins of the Marcoses.

“Most of the problems faced by schools such as low budgets, lack of facilities, large class sizes, and other perennial problems were brought by Marcos or worsened during his reign, so we cannot condone the rehabilitation of his image nor that of his family. Until now, we are still paying the foreign debts,” she said.

CNN Philippines' Glee Jalea, Xave Gregorio and Vince Ferreras contributed to this report