As Ferdinand Marcos Jr appears headed towards a landslide victory in the 2022 Philippine polls that could see his family return to the presidential palace, posts have circulated widely online downplaying the human rights abuses during the term of his father, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. These posts feature a video — viewed hundreds of thousands of times — that shows the older Marcos alleging Amnesty International did not visit the country and relied on “hearsay” in its reports about abuses during his dictatorship.
This is misleading: multiple historical accounts indicate the rights group visited the Philippines at least twice during the Marcos presidency. A human rights victim told AFP he was interviewed by the group when its investigators came to the country in 1975.
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