FOR all the Yellows’ shrieks alleging widespread human rights violations (HRVs) during Martial Law, they have never filed a single case for such crimes at the Commission on Human Rights it set up in 1987 nor in any Philippine court. I also haven’t found any cases alleging HRVs by the Marcos regime filed in local courts. Reasons whyWhy were there no such cases filed? He quoted the paragraph which he claimed was the Court’s conclusion that there were widespread HRVs during martial law. The Communist Party through its fronts abandoned the judicial arena and instead lobbied for a law that ordered compensation to purported human rights victims during martial law.

Source: Manila Times September 30, 2018 16:41 UTC