World IN BRIEF : PHILIPPINES : Marcos Estate Assessed $1.2 Billion
A federal jury in Honolulu ordered the estate of the late Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos to pay $1.2 billion in damages to thousands of dissidents said to have suffered under his rule. The award was made in an unprecedented class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of more than 10,000 dissidents and political opponents alleged to have been subjected to torture, murder, rape and imprisonment from 1972 until the overthrow of Marcos in 1986. The same 10-member jury found Marcos’ estate liable in September, 1992, for the human rights abuses, but legal wrangling delayed the award phase of the trial.
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