16 Facts About Macli-ing Dulag

Macli-ing Dulag is best known as one of the leaders of the opposition to the Chico River Dam Project, which led to his assassination by armed forces under the command of then-president Ferdinand Marcos.

Macli-ing Dulag was elected to three terms as barrio captain of Bugnay.

Macli-ing Dulag was one of 16 Bugnay villagers incarcerated for two months by the PC that year.

The December 1979 bodong was attended by 2,000 Kalingas and Bontocs and saw Macli-ing Dulag officially designated as the official spokesperson for the opposition effort.

Since Macli-ing Dulag was a prominent figure within the opposition, many of the Marcos administrations' efforts at bribing the opposition focused on him.

Macli-ing Dulag was offered a plush job as coordinator of the KSDR, which would have given him a large monthly salary, but he rejected the offer.

Macli-ing Dulag was assassinated by Marcos-controlled military forces on April 24,1980.

The military personnel told Macli-ing Dulag to come out, but he refused, telling them to return the following day.

Macli-ing Dulag asked his wife to hold the door closed while he secured its lock, and lit a lamp to do so.

Macli-ing Dulag sustained a total of ten bullet wounds, with the fatal ones being on the left breast and the right pelvis.

Macli-ing Dulag pointed to the soldiers where his husband was "sleeping," and the soldiers opened fire upon the rolled-up blanket.

Macli-ing Dulag's attackers were eventually identified as men under the command of Lieutenant Leodegario Adalem of the 44th Infantry Battalion, a graduate of the Philippine Military Academy's class of 1978.

Macli-ing Dulag was killed in an ambush in April 2000.

Coverage of Macli-ing Dulag's murder proved to be a watershed moment in the mainstream press' coverage of Martial Law.

Macli-ing Dulag's murder unified the various peoples of the Cordillera Mountains against the proposed dam, causing both the World Bank and the Marcos regime to eventually abandon the project a few years after.

Macli-ing Dulag's name is inscribed on the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Wall of Remembrance in Quezon City, Metro Manila, which is dedicated to victims of extrajudicial killings since the Martial Law era.