During the uprising against Marcos, taken form the book "People Power: An Eyewitness History"
In an interview then chairperson of KMU Crispin Beltran on the “progress” made under President Corazon Aquino after the fall of martial law and Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, Beltran states:
…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…(Scripes, 61-2)
Source
Scripes, Kim. KMU; Building Genuine Trade Unionism in the Philippines, 1980-1994. Quezon City, Philippines: New Day Publishers, 1996.
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