The Human Rights Victims' Claims Board received "a total of 75,749 applications from individuals seeking state recognition and reparations." After review, the Board accepted 11,103 claims, having cross-referenced them with "news clippings, court documents, witness affidavits, humanitarian groups' reports, and other sources."

Based on a study by historian Michael Charleston “Xiao” Chua, Rappler reports on the torture methods employed by Marcos state forces during Martial Law. (Editor’s Note: We did not include this in the book but we reference it here for additional context, with fair warning that the article depicts extreme violence.)

Bantayog ng mga Bayani recognizes, honors and popularizes the lives of those who resisted the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. The Martyrs and Heroes section of their website says, “In 2023, it numbers 326 names in its roster, and more are added every year through research and documentation. The Wall of Remembrance, a series of black granite walls located in the Bantayog center, is the physical monument where the names of these martyrs and heroes are to be found. The first names were enshrined in 1992. Others have been added in subsequent years.”

From a report by Cecilia Yap and Ian C Sayson for bloomberg.com:

“According to our records, he did not complete his degree, but was awarded a special diploma in Social Studies in 1978,” Oxford said in an e-mailed reply to questions. “The special diploma was not a full graduate diploma.”

The Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission writes in 2021, “On July 15, 2003, the Supreme Court of the Philippines ruled that over 25 billion pesos worth of Marcos assets were considered ill-gotten wealth. This followed a near two-decade legal struggle between the Philippine Government and the Marcos Family over the custody of these assets, kept in various Swiss bank accounts.”

In 2021, Bloomberg asks, “Where Did Marcos Hide His $10 Billion Fortune?” In the article, Haley Cohen Gilliland writes:

The brazenness of Ferdinand Marcos’s graft—a haul the Philippine government later estimated at $5 billion to $10 billion—would become legendary, recognized by the Guinness World Records as the “greatest robbery of a government.”

In 2019, Princeton University’s daily student publication reports about Imee Marcos’ false claims about graduating from their university. The article reports, “Although she enrolled in the University in 1973, no record shows that she graduated.”

Watchdog Amesty International on the occurrences of human rights violations during Marcos rule: “From 1972 to 1981, some 70,000 people were imprisoned and 34,000 were tortured; over 3,200 people were killed.”

In the introduction for her book Marcos Martial Law: Never Again, Raissa Robles writes about the murder “of 16-year-old Luis Manuel “Boyet” Mijares, son of Primitivo, a former aide of the dictator, President Ferdinand Marcos.” Primitivo Mijares would turn whistleblower, publishing almost 500 pages of exposés in The Conjugal Dictatorship.

In 2016, the Official Gazette writes, “Following the weeklong appraisal in November 2015 of the massive ill-gotten jewelry collection seized from the Marcoses and stored in a vault at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for almost three decades, the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) announced that the value of all three collections now amounts to a conservative estimate of at least P1 billion.”

A 2011 report from The New York Times partly reads, “Mr. Olegario was among the first 12 victims of Marcos’s rule and family members to receive compensation checks in what legal experts said was a pioneering class-action suit against the family of Marcos, who died in 1989. Payments of about $1,000 will go to 7,526 claimants.”