Martial-Law Victims Urge Aquino to Fast-Track Reparation Payments
To this day, not a single centavo has been given as reparation to the victims of the Marcos dictatorship.By RONALYN V. OLEA
Bulatlat.com
MANILA — Survivors of martial law called on President Benigno S. Aquino III to certify as urgent the compensation bill for victims of human rights violations during the Marcos dictatorship.
The call came after a recent decision of United States District Judge Manuel Real on the distribution of the $10 million settlement agreement by Marcos crony Jose Campos. The estimated valueu of Marcos’s ill-gotten wealth in Colorado and Texas is pegged at $78 million. Romy del Prado, one of the martial law victims represented by Robert Swift, settled for $10 million, 25 percent of which goes to Swift and his team of researchers. This means that only $7.5 million will be distributed to the victims or roughly $1,000 each.
In a statement, former Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo, a victim of torture and detention during Martial Law said the settlement has proven that the Marcoses violated human rights and stashed away money that came from the nation’s coffers and allowed dummies and cronies to hold these for them. “This is a vindication for the victims and a step forward in the Filipino people’s fight against the corruption of the hated conjugal dictatorship,” Ocampo said.
To this day, not a single centavo has been given as reparation to the victims of the Marcos dictatorship..... MORE
Source: Bulatlat
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