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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/compensation-for-victims-of-marcos.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Former Philippine President Fidel Ramos re-enacts his famous jump of 1986 during the 25th People Power Anniversary celebration (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-compensation-for-victims-of-marcos.jpg" alt="Former Philippine President Fidel Ramos re-enacts his famous jump of 1986 during the 25th People Power Anniversary celebration (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>About 7,500 victims of human rights abuses during late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos&#8217; regime will receive compensation for their suffering starting next week, 25 years after a peaceful revolt forced Marcos into exile in Hawaii, their lawyers said.</p>
<p>It is the first time the victims will receive any compensation since they filed a class suit in 1986.</p>
<p>&#8220;The distribution is historic and a triumph after 25 years of struggle to achieve justice,&#8221; US lawyer Robert Swift said.</p>
<p>Mr Swift said victims will receive the equivalent of 1,000 US dollars (£620) each starting in a ceremony on Monday.</p>
<p>Mr Swift and his Filipino co-counsels, assisted by the Commission on Human Rights, will distribute cheques personally to claimants or their heirs in Manila and 15 other locations in the country.</p>
<p>One co-counsel, former Senator Rene Saguisag, said &#8220;the money is important but more important is to send the message to would-be dictators, to would-be human rights violators, that they cannot hide anywhere&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Saguisag said the payments should warn dictators now facing uprisings in the Middle East or elsewhere that &#8220;there is no haven for gross human rights violators&#8221;.</p>
<p>Last month, US District Judge Manuel Real approved the distribution of 7.5 million US dollars (£4.7m) to 7,526 eligible members of the class-action lawsuit.</p>
<p>There were 9,539 members at the beginning of the case but some 2,000 did not meet court requirements.</p>
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