Location: Intramuros, Manila (Region NCR)
Category: Site/Event
Type: Memorial
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 1995
Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)
Marker text:
IN MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS AT FORT SANTIAGO
ON THIS SITE LIE THE MORTAL REMAINS OF APPROXIMATELY 600 FILIPINOS. THEIR BODIES WERE FOUND INSIDE A NEARBY DUNGEON WHERE VICTIMS OF THE ATROCITIES PERPETRATED BY THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL FOCES WERE IMPRISONED DURING THE LAST DAYS OF FEBRUARY 1945.
THE MEMORY OF ALL THESE UNKNOWN VICTIMS OF JAPANESE ATROCITIES WILL LIVE FOREVER IN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE.
