Rights victims seek UN redress
November 9, 2007 -- Got something to say?
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Martial law human-rights victims have asked the United Nations Committee on Human Rights to compel the Philippine government to pay them $413.5 million, according to a press release issued by Rod Domingo Jr. and Robert Swift. They said the government has snubbed the awarding of $1.9 billion in compensation as ruled by a Hawaiian court in early 1995.
Domingo, one of the Filipino legal counsels of the human-rights victims, told The Manila Times the $413.5 million represents interest earned on the $1.9 billion over a period of eight years, from May 20, 1997, when the victims asked a Makati Regional Trial Court to collect the amount awarded to them by a Hawaii jury, to April 15, 2005, when the Supreme Court ruled that the filing fee for the case is only P400.
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