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The international community eventually got word of these human rights violations and applied pressure to the Marcos dictatorship to end them. In 1975, Marcos aide and chief propagandist Primitivo Mijares defected from the Marcos dictatorship and revealed in front of US lawmakers that torture was routinely practiced within the Marcos regime. [56]
Nigeria's Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission, also known as the Oputa Panel after its leader Chukwudifu Oputa, was a commission that was developed following the collapse of the military dictatorship that controlled Nigeria until 1998. [1] It was created by newly elected President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999. [2]
The Marcos dictatorship is historically remembered for its record of human rights abuses, [26] [27] [28] and based on the documentation of Amnesty International, Task Force Detainees of the Philippines, and similar human rights monitoring entities, [29] historians believe that the Marcos dictatorship was marked by 3,257 known extrajudicial ...
Ferdinand Marcos' martial law years may have been known for its numerous human rights violations, but it was a "necessity," the Malacañang Palace said in an official statement released yesterday ...
Various forms of torture were used by the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines between the declaration of martial law in 1972 and the Marcos family's ouster during the People Power Revolution in 1986. These included a range of methods Philippine forces picked up during its long periods of colonial occupation under Spanish, American, and ...
Marcos responded by proclaiming a decree that outlawed all strikes across all industries. [2] Nevertheless, the strike was a political turning point. The La Tondeña workers' slogan, "Tama Na, Sobra, Welga Na," was later adapted by protestors in the final years of the Marcos dictatorship. [11]
Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the namesake son of an ousted Philippine dictator, declared victory Wednesday in this week’s presidential election and faced early calls to ensure respect for human rights ...
Violeta Marcos (July 18, 1937 - April 30, 2001) was a Catholic nun who was best known as the co-founder and first director of the Augustinian Missionaries of the Philippines (AMP) [56] and for her contributions to the resistance against the Marcos dictatorship and Martial Law - first through her diocesan social action involvements in Negros ...