Camp Lukban
Camp General Vicente Lukban is a military headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Philippines located in Catbalogan, Samar. It is situated along the Pan-Philippine Highway in Barangay Maulong. The military base is named after the Filipino Military General, Vicente Lukbán, a Filipino officer in Emilio Aguinaldo's staff during the Philippine Revolution and the politico-military chief of Samar and Leyte during the Philippine–American War.
History
Barangay Maulong in Catbalogan, Samar first became the site of a Philippine Constabulary camp in 1935, during the Philippine Commonwealth. After the Japanese occupation ended at the end of World War II, the camp was reestablished and named Camp Lukban in honor of Philippine Revolutionary General Vicente Lukbán. It was still under the Constabulary in 1972 when Ferdinand Marcos placed the Philippines under Martial Law. It then became a detention center for political detainees under the [Marcos dictatorship], under the administration of Regional Command for Detainees III in Camp Lapu-Lapu, Cebu City. In this capacity, it was the site of various human rights violations documented by Amnesty International in 1981.It was on August 1, 1988, two years after Ferdinand Marcos was ousted by the 1986 People Power Revolution, that Camp Lukban became the headquarters of the 8th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army, when that unit - then known as the "8th Infantry Brigade " - was transferred from its previous Area of Responsibility in Leyte and elevated to its current status as a Division.