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Article: PHILIPPINES: COUP PLOTTERS GET AMNESTY, VICTIMS GET NOTHING
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- October 18, 1995
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Johanna Son
Inter Press Service English News Wire
10-18-1995
MANILA, Oct. 18 (IPS) -- The Philippine government moved to
close a bloody chapter in its history last week by making peace
with military rebels, but the accord has instead sparked a debate
about whether victims of past coup attempts got justice.
The peace agreement, which grants unconditional amnesty for
military rebels who staged seven coup attempts against the
government from 1987 to 1990, was signed Oct. 13 after three years
of negotiations.
President Fidel Ramos hailed it as a "triumph of the Filipino
people" and a sign of the military's respect for civilian rule, but
critics wonder if his government had been too soft on the ...