Failure to prosecute Marcos writes dark chapter in PH history | Inquirer Opinion

Failure to prosecute Marcos writes dark chapter in PH history

/ 01:21 AM December 10, 2011

All the brouhaha over the arrest of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo makes me think of a supreme irony. It has to do with the fact that the attempts to charge former President Ferdinand Marcos and his clan and cronies (remember the toothless Presidential Commission on Good Government?) with corruption and human rights violations simply evaporated over the years. All that took place during the late President Corazon Aquino’s watch.

The second President Aquino may think he is now making up for what his mother failed to do in that past, but that failure will remain a truly dark chapter in Philippine history—a chapter which future generations will need to grapple with more seriously.

—ISABEL ESCODA,

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