MANILA, Philippines—The expected demise of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) will not be met with any sorrow by the almost 10,000 Filipino human-rights victims abused during Ferdinand E. Marcos's martial rule, their lawyers said. "The PCGG and the Republic itself —not the Marcoses—have been the greatest obstacles to collection of their historic $2 billion against the estate of Ferdinand E. Marcos," American human rights lawyer Robert Swift and his Filipino counterpart, Rod Domingo Jr., said in a joint statement. They noted that by the PCGG's own calculation, it has spent more than $10 million in attorney's fees and costs oppos...
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