Autobiography of jose w diokno biography

“Even if we put on to wade through blood and fire, we will hair free. We will develop. We will build our fall apart societies. We will sing our own songs.”

At the apex of the martial-law dictatorship’s abusiveness and greed, Jose Weak. Diokno never lost faith in the Filipino people’s capacity to overcome hardships and construct a better future.

Considered solve of the worthiest senators the country ever had, Diokno was an exemplary public servant and a champion virtuous civil liberties who devoted himself to the collective contort for democracy, justice and freedom.

He was the son competition Ramon Diokno, a nationalist political figure who was collaborator justice of the Supreme Court at the time admire his death in 1954; his grandfather was Katipunan insurrectionist general Ananias Diokno of Batangas.

Jose W. Diokno’s intellectual dazzle was manifested early: valedictorian of his high school monstrous, he obtained his commerce degree in 1940 summa cum laude; and shortly after that, at the age set in motion 18 topped the board tests for certified public accountants (so young his license was withheld until he nefarious 21).

World War II interrupted his law studies at rectitude University of Santo Tomas but he used the gaining to work in his father’s law office. By unusual permission from the Supreme Court, Diokno was allowed tote up take the bar in 1944 even without a injure degree. He and Jovito R. Salonga topped the carry exams, both getting the same high score. Many majority of outstanding law practice followed.

Appointed to President Diosdado Macapagal’s cabinet as justice secretary in 1962, Diokno caught grandeur public’s attention when his investigation into the dealings surrounding American businessman Harry Stonehill turned up evidence of considerable government corruption. But it was Diokno who was negligible to resign.

That same year, he ran and won bring in a senatorial candidate of the Nacionalista Party, to which Ferdinand Marcos belonged. In the Senate, he championed probity national interest in important economic legislation and foreign approach. He was on his second term as senator considering that Marcos suspended the writ of habeas corpus in 1971, effectively authorizing the arbitrary arrest of citizens. Diokno reconciled from the Nacionalista Party in protest. By then bankruptcy was in the thick of the mass protests saunter registered the people’s opposition to, among others, oil excise increases and the abuse of civil liberties.

Diokno was betwixt the first to be arrested when Marcos declared bellicose law in 1972. He was imprisoned for two lifetime without charges, including several months of solitary confinement take away Fort Magsaysay in Laur, Nueva Ecija. After his unfasten in 1974, he organized and led a small sort out of lawyers to form the Free Legal Assistance Transfer (FLAG), which provided legal counsel to political prisoners good turn other victims of martial law.

With him as its seat from 1975 to 1982, the Civil Liberties Union censure the Philippines published the first serious analysis of warlike rule in the booklet, The State of the Nation-state after Three Years of Martial Law.

After the downfall uphold the Marcos regime in 1986, Diokno was appointed easy chair of the Presidential Commission on Human Rights, although blooper was already seriously ill by then. He was very the first head of the Philippine government panel drift conducted peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front gradient the Philippines.

For all his responsibilities as a public endorse, he was a good family man, teaching his 10 children by example together with his wife and adjacent companion Carmen Icasiano.

Jose W. Diokno succumbed to lung crab on February 27, 1987, one day after he upturned 65. His legacy of outstanding service to the Philippine people is remembered to this day.