Manila - Lawyers for victims of human rights violations under Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos say more than 7 500 of them will receive compensation starting next week, 25 years after his ouster in a “people power” revolt.
It will be the first financial compensation since they sued in 1986.
American lawyer Robert Swift said on Thursday each will get the equivalent of $1 000. The money will come from a $7.5 million settlement involving Marcos's assets in Texas and Colorado.
Swift says more money may be forthcoming after a Hawaii court's judgment last month holding in contempt Marcos's widow Imelda and their son Ferdinand Marcos Jr and ordering them to pay the victims $353.6 million. - Sapa-AP