'Historian' spreads fake claim falsely attributed to Amnesty International

By Rigoberto D. Tiglao

May 30, 2022 12:07 am

DR. Ambeth Ocampo, the renowned collector of historical trivia, again revealed his Yellow bias and unprofessionalism as a historian when he wrote in his column last week that an Amnesty International document declared the following, and therefore true: 'From 1972 to 1981, some 70,000 people were imprisoned and 34,000 were tortured; over 3,200 people were killed.'

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