Human rights: Decidedly social wrongs then, shamelessly political fodder now

During the last 30 years or so, estimates differed on the actual number of victims of human rights violations during martial law, from a “low” of 10,000 then to a “high” of more than 75,000 now.

Low or high the number may be, it still had served the political agenda of the administrations of Corazon “Cory” Aquino and Fidel Ramos and has proved handy for that of Cory’s son, the incumbent President Benigno Aquino 3rd.