Malacañang on Thursday said it had no plans to release a statement on the 51st anniversary of Martial Law, which was declared by the father and namesake of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on 21 September 1972.

Asked if the Palace would issue a statement, the Presidential Communications Office told reporters in a Viber message, "Wala raw po (There is no statement)."

Amnesty International data said Martial Law led to the imprisonment of over 70,000 people, the torture of 34,000 individuals, and the death of 3,200 others.

Marcos Jr. had questioned the statistics in January 2022, saying he had no idea how the figures were arrived at.

Amnesty International gathered the information after two missions to the Philippines in 1971 and 1981, with the reports published in 1976 and 1982.

Meanwhile, the state-run Human Rights Violations Victims Memorial Commission averred that 11,103 individuals experienced human rights violations during martial law.

HRVVMC said 2,326 individuals either lost their lives or went missing between the years 1972 and 1986 as a result of these violations.

The issues of human rights violations are separate from the issue of ill-gotten wealth, which had been acknowledged as a legal matter by the Supreme Court in 2003, 2012 and 2017.

The ill-gotten wealth is estimated to be between $5 billion and $10 billion after the Marcos family was ousted from Malacañang through the EDSA People Power Revolution.

Senator Imee Marcos, on the other hand, had a lot to say about Martial Law.

In a press conference at the Marcoses' residence in the City of San Juan, Marcos, along with former members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, clarified "misconceptions" about martial law during his father's regime.

"I always hear from students about the alleged abuses, the alleged kidnappings, that there were desaparecidos. I always asked my father about it," she said in Filipino.

"My father always tells me that: 'There are really erring cops, soldiers, and officials. We will punish them if proven true, but never did I ever order that because I will answer that to God,'" she added.

She continued: "He always said that. He never intended for abuses to happen. It was never a matter of policy."

Ferdinand Marcos Sr. was in power for 20 years.