Chapter 5: G & B
On December 22 1987 a reassuring statement that " She will never tolerate any violations much less any gross and systematic violation of Human Rights."
But unknown to the general public, her regime, by contrast presented a gruesome picture of human rights situation from March 1, 1986 to December 1991 with the number of warrantless arrests and detention reaching an alarming level of 15,999 and extra-judicial executions of 1,733 cases, including 189 that occurred in 1990 alone.
The records in Congress, the Human Rights Commission, and Task Force Detainees of the Philippines for the same period showed 335 cases of disappearance and 146 cases of massacres.
In reaction... Philippine Human Rights Commissioners JBL Reyes, Jose Diokno, Zenaida Avacena, and Mariani Diamaranan all resigned.
In addition, 34 journalist who exposed graft and corruption and other venalities in her government were murdured and many others were persecuted...
In Ramos six-year in office 18 journalist were slain...
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