RESURRECION Palma, 67, braved the rains to participate in a candle procession on the 26th anniversary of martial law. She was there to cry for justice for the death of her two sons.

From Morayta in España to Chino Roces bridge (formerly Mendiola) near Malacañang, the families and friends of the victims of martial law demanded that the architects of the repressive regime of Ferdinand Marcos pay for their ''blood debts.'' Palma said her son Charlie, then 21, was married and had three children, the youngest of whom was six months old, when the military men picked him up on Dec. 12, 1974.

Her other son, Ariel, 19, was about to enter college when arrested. Charlie was brought to Camp Olivas while Ariel was locked up in Camp Crame. The Palma brothers were charged with subversion because they were active in the national democratic movement during the First Quarter Storm.

Both were subjected to severe torture. In his account, which he secretly wrote while in prison and sent to his mother through a soldier he had befriended, Charlie said he was mauled, humiliated and subjected to electric shock, wet submarine, water cure and was injected with truth serum to force him to turn against rebel priest Fr. Ed dela Torre, founder of the Christian for National Liberation.

''But my Ariel never found the chance to tell his story because he lost his mind due to the physical and mental torture he went through,'' the mother said. Palma said she only learned of what happened to Ariel through his fellow detainees, who witnessed the torture.

''According to other political detainees, Ariel was subjected to torture similar to what my son Charlie told me and I could only imagine the pain,'' she said. ''He was so young, so confused and could not have understood why he was being beaten so badly.''

She said Ariel was also forced to listen to the tape that recorded the cries and sufferings of his brother while being tortured. Ariel was told his brother had been murdered after the torture.

Palma recalled that Charlie in his letter said that their captors told him that they were just ''following orders from above.'' ''If we don't follow, we will not be promoted and given a reward of P3,000 per detainee captured, tortured and killed, in that order,'' Charlie told his mother.

''Don't worry, mother, I will not be murdered without a fight. I am going to see my children grow up,'' she quoted Charlie as telling her in the letter. ''Charlie never saw his children grow up,'' she said, holding back tears. ''His youngest is now 26 years old.''

By his own account, Charlie said he was subjected to a 110-volt electric shock, after which his head was dunked in a toilet bowl full of excrement which the captors called ''wet submarine'' to force him to regain consciousness.

Next, he said, he was subjected to water cure by his captors, six of them, pouring water onto a cloth which covered his face so that he could not breathe and gave him a sensation of drowning.

The next thing the military did was to play Russian roulette loading one bullet into a revolver and pulling the trigger while poking the gun at his head or in his mouth. He was also injected with a ''truth serum.'' The case of Charlie Palma was among the 135 persons who were randomly selected by the US District Court to represent the 9,539 victims in the class suit filed and won in Hawaii.

Palma last saw her son, Charlie, when he was released from prison on Aug. 26, 1986. The People Power Revolt had installed Corazon Aquino president. ''Ariel was better off dead,'' his bereaved mother told the Inquirer, ''because he was paralyzed, so sickly that a few days after his release, he died.''

He knew no one, not even his mother. He never regained his sanity. For someone so young Ariel suffered too much to attain the dawn only to see it in a flash. Her son Charlie was also released. He died in 1994.

Fortunata Pinguel, 71, joined the protest procession to demand compensation for the sufferings of her son Baltazar. Her only son, Baltazar, then 19, was an activist from the University of the Philippines, who was arrested in November 1972.

She said Baltazar managed to escape his captors but was rearrested in 1980 and brought to Camp Sergio Osmeña in Cebu. Baltazar was tortured before his release in 1985. She said Baltazar exiled himself in the United States where he worked for a human rights organization.

''I want to be reunited with my son because he was forced by the Marcos regime to flee the country but he vowed to come back only if justice is accorded him,'' Pinguel said. She said as a result of her son's arrest, her husband suffered a heart attack, which has paralyzed him since 1980.

Spearheaded by human rights groups Karapatan and Samahan ng mga Ex-detainees Laban sa Detensyon at para sa Amnestiya (Selda), the procession chanted, ''Marcos, Ramos, Ver, Enrile: Singilin ang utang na dugo.'' (Pay for your blood debt.) They also demanded that the bodies of the ''desaparecidos'' be produced.

Palma said she was holding the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile, former Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Fabian Ver, former President Fidel Ramos and businessman Eduardo ''Danding'' Cojuangco liable for the death of his two sons and the rest of the victims of human rights violations.

She said they were the brains behind the imposition of martial rule. Enrile was the Marcos defense secretary; Ramos, the chief of the Philippine Constabulary; Ver, chief of AFP and the Presidential Security Battalion.

The survivors lighted candles and offered flowers for those who were summarily executed and those who disappeared. They bore placards and streamers that said ''No to dropping of civil and criminal charges against the Marcoses, No to immunity from suits.'

The protesters wore a black shirt and a red arm band to protest government's inaction on their demands for the compensation claims for the victims of the Marcos regime. The protesters ended the Mass and protest peacefully at about 2:30 p.m