RENE SAGUISAG

LAST Monday, some human rights victims of the Marcoses started getting paid. At long last. This felicitous development, I see from one perspective, as the culmination of the dream and legal effort of human rights victim and detainee Joe Mari Velez. I got to meet him in 1971, at the Manila Hotel, where he was a standout anti-Marcos dynasty Con-Con delegate, through fellow standout delegate Bobbit Sanchez, also gone, who I was assisting. Bobbit was the first MABINI chair.

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