50 years after martial law, Filipino activists seek justice for abuses

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Survivors of torture and other atrocities under Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos have marked his martial law declaration 50 years ago by pressing their demand for justice and an apology from his son — now the country’s president.

, delivered a speech at the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. A small group of Filipino-American protesters hounded him and at one point managed to get close and booed him and repeatedly yelled “Never again to martial law!” as he alighted from a convoy and walked into a building with security escorts.

Taguiwalo, 72, sought an apology from the president and asked him to “stop lying about the horrors of martial law.” “The trauma has returned with all its inhumanities,” Ilagan, 70, said, renewing his call for justice and a clear Marcos apology. “That’s the reason why I could not, for the life of me, say that he is my president.”

The legislation was used to compensate the victims of the abuses. Separately, a Hawaii court found the elder Marcos liable for rights violations and awarded $2 billion from his estate to more than 9,000 Filipinos led by Rosales who filed a lawsuit against him for torture, extrajudicial killings, incarceration and disappearances.

 

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ML survivors and families of victims already received and still receiving millions of pesos from the PH govt. These activists are not those victims but are just paid puppets of the opposition.

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