The Glossary of Human Rights Terms, published in 1991 by Task Force Detainees (TFD), defines salvaging as an “execution committed by government agent(s) in contravention or violation of due process of law” that is “equivalent to the international terms extra-judicial and summary executions.” In the seventeen-year period after Marcos’s declaration of martial law, the TFD reported at least 1,217 salvagings. Amnesty International put the number at 3,240.
