Editing Quezon City (section)

==== After the Martial Law proclamation ====
Marcos' declaration of [[Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos|martial law]] in September 1972 saw the immediate shutdown of all media not approved by Marcos, including Quezon City media outlets such as [[DZBB-TV|GMA Channel 7]] and [[DWWX-TV|ABS-CBN Channel 2]]. At the same time, it saw the arrest of many students, journalists, academics, and politicians who were considered political threats to Marcos, many of them residents of Quezon City. By the morning after Marcos' televised announcement of the proclamation, about 400 of these arrestees were gathered in [[Camp Crame]] on the southwestern reaches of Quezon City, destined to be among the first of thousands of [[political detainees under the Marcos dictatorship]].<ref name="Daroy1988"/>

Camp Crame would be the site of many of the [[human rights abuses of the Marcos dictatorship]], with one of the first being the murder of student journalist [[Liliosa Hilao]] in Camp Crame.<ref name=Inquirer04172017>{{cite web|url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/718061/liliosa-hilao-first-martial-law-detainee-killed|title=Liliosa Hilao: First Martial Law detainee killed|first=Kate Pedroso, Marielle|last=Medina|date=September 2015}}</ref> Among the prominent cases of abuse suffered specifically by Quezon City residents were the cases of [[Primitivo Mijares]] and his sixteen-year-old son Boyet Mijares, who lived in Project 6 at the time of their deaths;<ref name="MijaresDisappearance">{{Cite news |last=Zamora |first=Fe |date=February 19, 2017 |title=Family secret: How Primitivo Mijares disappeared |language=en |work=INQUIRER.net |url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/872907/family-secret-how-primitivo-mijares-disappeared |url-status=live |access-date=May 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711125110/http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/872907/family-secret-how-primitivo-mijares-disappeared |archive-date=July 11, 2018}}</ref> [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Cubao]] social worker [[Purificacion Pedro]] who was murdered by a soldier at her hospital room in Bataan;<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Story of Puri|publisher=Schoenstatt Editions USA|year=2022|isbn=9781594380921}}</ref> 23-year old Kamias resident and student activist Roland Jan Quimpo who became a desaparecido;<ref name="BantayogProfileRonaldJanQuimpo">{{Cite web |date=2023-06-26 |title=Martyrs & Heroes: Ronald Jan Quimpo |url=https://bantayogngmgabayani.org/bayani/ronald-jan-quimpo/ |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=Bantayog ng mga Bayani |language=en-US}}</ref> and Cubao-based tailor Rolando "Lando" Federis who was abducted by armed men in Lucena City while accompanying a group of activists to Bicol, tortured, and then killed.<ref name="BantayogProfileRolandoFederis">{{Cite web |date=2023-06-03 |title=Martyrs & Heroes: Rolando Federis |url=https://bantayogngmgabayani.org/bayani/rolando-federis/ |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=Bantayog ng mga Bayani |language=en-US}}</ref> In addition, a large number of student activists who were caught, detained, tortured, sexually abused, killed, and disappeared by the regime had been studying in the various universities and colleges in Quezon City.<ref name="Daroy1988"/>

One of the key moments that led to the eventual demise of the Marcos dictatorship was the [[1974 Sacred Heart Novitiate raid]], in which a Catholic seminary in [[Novaliches]] was raided on the suspicion that communist leaders were hiding there. The arrest of Fr. Benigno Mayo who was the head of the Jesuit order in the Philippines at the time, and Fr. Jose Blanco alongside 21 members of the youth group called Student Catholic Action (SCA), helped convince "[[Middle force opposition to the Marcos dictatorship|the formerly neutral Philippine middle class]]" that Marcos' powers had grown too great.<ref name="ThompsonStruggle">{{Cite book |last=Thompson |first=Mark R. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44741565 |title=The anti-Marcos struggle : personalistic rule and democratic transition in the Philippines |date=1996 |publisher=New Day |isbn=971-10-0992-7 |location=Quezon City, Philippines |oclc=44741565 |access-date=January 16, 2024 |archive-date=August 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240826165143/https://search.worldcat.org/title/44741565 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/773372348 |title=Socdem : Filipino social democracy in a time of turmoil and transition, 1965-1995 |date=2011 |publisher=Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung |isbn=978-971-535-033-4 |location=Pasig City, Metro Manila |oclc=773372348}}</ref>

As international pressure forced Marcos to start restoring civil rights, other key moments in Philippine history took place in Quezon City. Journalist [[Joe Burgos]] established the Quezon City-based [[WE Forum]] newspaper in 1977 and in it published a story by Colonel [[Bonifacio Gillego]] in November 1982 which discredited many of the [[Marcos medals]].<ref name="PamelaHollie19821208">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/08/world/manila-newspaper-closed-by-marcos.html |title=Manila Newspaper Closed by Marcos |last=Hollie |first=Pamela G. |date=1982-12-08 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-01-28 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=November 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103010046/https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/08/world/manila-newspaper-closed-by-marcos.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Media coverage of the [[September 1984 Welcome Rotonda protest dispersal]] showed how opposition figures including 80-year-old former Senator [[Lorenzo Tañada]] and 71-year old Manila Times founder [[Chino Roces]] were waterhosed despite their frailty and how student leader [[Fidel Nemenzo]] (later Chancellor of the University of the Philippines Diliman) was shot nearly to death.

Most significantly, the August 1983 funeral of [[Assassination of Ninoy Aquino|assassinated]] opposition leader of [[Ninoy Aquino]] began at the Aquino family household in Times Street, West Triangle, Quezon City, and continued to the funeral mass at [[Santo Domingo Church]] in Santa Mesa Heights before the final interment at the [[Manila Memorial Park – Sucat]]. The procession took from 9:00 AM until 9:00 PM to finish as two million people joined the crowd. The experience galvanized many of the Philippines into resisting the dictatorship, with protests against Marcos snowballing until they happened nearly every week, and until Marcos was ousted by the [[People Power revolution]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/blogs/opinions/08/24/14/ninoy%E2%80%99s-funeral-was-day-filipinos-stopped-being-afraid-dictators|title=Ninoy's funeral was the day Filipinos stopped being afraid of dictators|first=Raissa|last=Robles|date=August 25, 2014|accessdate=May 31, 2021|website=ABS-CBN News|archive-date=June 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602213143/https://news.abs-cbn.com/blogs/opinions/08/24/14/ninoy%E2%80%99s-funeral-was-day-filipinos-stopped-being-afraid-dictators|url-status=dead}}</ref>