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Human rights victims of Ferdinand Marcos's rule lose case
The wife of late Philippine ruler Ferdinand Marcos has praised a US Supreme Court ruling against victims of human rights abuses who had sought $35 million held in an account by the dictator.
- Reuters
- Published: 20:16 June 13, 2008
Manila: The wife of late Philippine ruler Ferdinand Marcos has praised a US Supreme Court ruling against victims of human rights abuses who had sought $35 million held in an account by the dictator.
"Thank God that once more, truth and justice have prevailed," Imelda Marcos said in a statement.
The Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a ruling by a US appeals court that would have allowed the money held in a US account to be distributed among 10,000 victims of rights abuses during Marcos' 20-year rule.
The case involved a New York brokerage account that Marcos set up in 1972 in the name of a suspected dummy corporation with a $2 million deposit. The amount in the account has since grown to over $35 million.
Lawyers for the victims had argued they should get the amount as part of a $2 billion judgment in US courts against the Marcos estate over human rights abuses under his rule which ended in a popular revolt in 1986.
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