[2] Various reports from the period say that two of those who were seriously wounded died two months later, but these could not be corroborated by formal media outlets given the limitations on freedom of the press in the Philippines at the time.

[1][3] On June 14, 1981, demonstrators from Basud, Camarines Norte were preparing to join a rally to be staged at the Freedom Park in front of the Provincial Capitol of Daet.

J. Antonio M. Carpio, the chairman of the KMTD, He and Vinzons-Magana, as corroborated by a fact-finding team led by Jose W. Diokno and Chino Roces, revealed that most of those who were killed or hit were at the frontlines, making it improbable that the shooters came from behind.

Initially detained without formal charges, the main basis of their arrest was revealed to be a presidential commitment order (PCO) issued by Ferdinand Marcos himself on June 26, supposedly on the grounds that their activities violated the Anti-Subversion Law (P.D.

[7][8][9][10] KMTD Vice Chair Luis General, Jr., leading the defense of Carpio and Vinzons-Magana, said he would question the authority of the office of Marcos to order the arrest, given that Martial Law had technically been lifted by January of 1981.

[3] In an oil painting by social realist painter Gene de Loyola, the Daet Massacre is compared to later violent dispersals of protesting farmers, most notably those at Hacienda Luisita on November 16, 2004.