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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Gadon falsely claims that human rights violations under Marcos Sr. regime were mere propaganda of ‘yellows’

The human rights violations during the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos Sr. had been proven to be false and were mere invention and propaganda by the opposition.

Larry Gadon False

The Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission has documented 11,103 Filipinos who suffered abuse under the Marcos regime and eligible to receive compensations from the P10- billion fund from the Marcos Swiss accounts.
In 1995, some 10,000 of these victims of human rights won a class-action lawsuit in Hawaii where a jury found the late dictator guilty of the “torture, murder and disappearances of fellow Filipinos.”

(UPDATED) Lawyer Larry Gadon has erroneously claimed that human rights violations during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos Sr. had been proven to be false and were merely invented and used as propaganda by the opposition.

VERA Files Fact Check debunked similar claims thrice before. (Read: Never-ending tales on Marcos’ martial law)

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Editor’s note: This fact check was updated on March 14, 2023 to include the video fact check.
The quote card for this fact check was updated to reflect the role of Human Rights Victims’ Claims Board as an independent quasi-judicial body to receive, evaluate, process and investigate claims of human rights violations during the Marcos dictatorship. On the other hand, the Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission, an independent government agency, was created to establish, restore, preserve and conserve a memorial, museum, library and compendium in honor of the many human rights violations victims during the same period.

 

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Sources

Atty. Larry Gadon Facebook page, Ang tutuong Human Rights Violation…, Feb. 25, 2023

Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission, Roll of Victims, accessed Feb. 28, 2023

Official Gazette, Republic Act No. 10368, Feb. 25, 2013

Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission, About the Commission, accessed Feb. 28, 2023

Justia U.S. Law, In Re Estate of Marcos Human Rights Litigation, 910 F. Supp. 1460 (D. Haw. 1995), Nov. 30, 1995

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library, Trajano v Marcos 978 F.2d 493, Oct. 21, 1992

 

(Guided by the code of principles of the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter, VERA Files tracks the false claims, flip-flops, misleading statements of public officials and figures, and debunks them with factual evidence. Find out more about this initiative and our methodology.)