During the uprising against Marcos, taken form the book "People Power: An Eyewitness History"
On a blog post at The Excerpt Mill I take an excerpt from a book about repression under Philippine President Corazon Aquino:
from 1980-when KMU was organized-up to the overthrow of Marcos, a period of five and a half years, we recorded only 501 violations of human rights workers. For the whole year of 1987 along, we have recorded 735 human rights violations suffered by workers
Filed under: Government, History, Human Rights, Internal Politics, Military, Organizing/Grass Roots, Southeast Asia | Tagged: aquino, corazon aquino, kilusang mayo uno, kmu, Philippines
