Marcos' settle for US$150 million

Marcos' settle for US$150 million

MANILA (AFP): The family of the late Philippine dictator
Ferdinand Marcos on Friday announced a US$150 million settlement
with victims who were tortured during his ironfisted rule, but
insisted it was not an admission of guilt.

In a statement, the family and their American lawyer James
Paul Linn stressed that none of the Marcoses has ever been sued
or prosecuted for human rights violations.

"The Marcos family agreed to this settlement not from a sense
of guilt," said the statement, issued after Philippine newspapers
bannered the deal announced by lawyers from both sides in Los
Angeles earlier this week.

The statement highlighted how neither Marcos nor any member of
his family had ever been "charged with any human rights
violations, civilly or criminally, anywhere in the world,
including the Philippines".