Aquino Appoints Human Rights Panel
President Corazon Aquino named a human rights committee Tuesday and gave it broad powers to investigate widespread killings, torture and unexplained disappearances attributed to the Philippine military during the regime of deposed President Ferdinand E. Marcos.
Human rights organizations in the Philippines have said the Marcos regime summarily executed 2,256 people from 1977 to 1986.
The seven-member Presidential Committee on Human Rights includes several members of human rights groups whose leaders remain privately critical of Aquino’s military officeholders.
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