HR victims to get P50 K compensation

ome 10,000 victims of h man rights ab ses d ring the arcos regime will get compensation of 0,000 each on an. , 01 , their lawyer said yesterday.

obert wift said the compensation is from a 10 million settlement over an 1 painting by rench artist la de onet previo sly owned by melda arcos.

ast month, a co rt fo nd melda s former secretary ilma a tista g ilty of conspiring to sell a onet painting in the ater ily series, which vanished after the 1 revol tion.

wift said the ederal o rt in a waii approved his re est to distrib te 0,000 or abo t 1,1 to each victim on ov. .

n order to ass re that each class member act ally receives his or her entitlement, the distrib tion will be in person, not by mail, he said in a state ment.

e said the distrib tion of the compensation will be held at vario s locations nation wide.

hilippine co co nsel od o mingo r. welcomed the compensation, saying most of the victims are now old and poor.

e said arcos h man rights vic tims first received a 1,000 compensa tion in 011.

25 years

e a n w h i l e , residential om mission on ood o v e r n m e n t hairman ndres a tista said melda s for mer secretary no relation co ld be sentenced to years in ail.

he verdict is e pected on an. .

a t i s t a said the is also trying to recover the onet paint ing, part of the 1 missing artwor s from the arcos collection, which incl ded icassos, embrandts and a aphael.

e said they wo ld recover the painting from its c rrent owner, lan oward, who is based in wit er land, along with three other paint ings sei ed by the anhattan district attorney from a tista.

hese paint ings are ill gotten wealth and not arcos proper ties. hat is prop er is to remit it bac to the government and compensate the victims, which is what it did, he said.