Thread by @METAPHO98428148

To those who were born after 1986, here’s a trivia for you.
The MARCOS JAPANESE ODA SCANDAL or MARUKOSU GIWAKU or simply MARCOS SCANDAL was one of the reasons why Japan created its 1992 ODA Charter.

@bongbongmarcos @pcogovph @senatePH @SCPh_PIO

What happened to the money the Japanese paid the Philippines? MARCOS POCKETED THEM WITH THE AID OF HIS CRONY FRIEND, ROBERTO BENEDICTO WHO HE MADE THE PHILIPPINES’ AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN.

When Ferdinand Marcos became president in 1965, he appointed his Upsilon Sigma Phi fraternity brother and golfing buddy Roberto Benedicto as the Philippines' ambassador to Japan. Benedicto's appointment allowed him to develop high-level contacts in Japan

and allowed him to acquire over $550 million in World War II reparations, which he allegedly used to forward his own private interests.
Moreover, when the Marcoses were exiled to Hawaii in 1986 after the People Power Revolution, the US authorities confiscated papers

that the Marcoses brought with them. These documents revealed that since the 1970s, Marcos and his associates embezzled 10 to 15 percent of Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund loans through commissions from about fifty Japanese contractors.

After over 60yrs, now the UN ruled out that the Philippines violated the rights of comfort women during WW II by failing to redress the continuous suffering they have endured.
UN News:
news.un.org/en/story/2023/…
Marcos ODA Scandal:
journals.upd.edu.ph/.../article/vi…

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