A long overdue post (sorry dad!). This was an article released a year after my Dad was killed.
The original link to the Philstar.com webpage can be found here (Click me!) The photos are not posted on the site but here's an excerpt of the text:
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| by Joanne Ramirez Tuesday March 8, 2005 Incorruptible Judge Voltaire Y. Rosales gets Pepe Diokno Award (Click on the photo for a larger picture) |
"His brain was splattered on the ground. They shot him on the head to show their hatred at the fact that he could not be controlled, that he had his own mind," lawyer Filomena "Nena" Rosales, widow of Batangas Judge Voltaire "Butch" Rosales, once painfully recalled in a press interview. Butch, a heinous-crime judge, was mercilessly shot by motorcycle-riding gunmen on June 10 last year. He was on his way home from work.
We are sure Nena would have rather been an ordinary wife than the widow of a hero. But it may give her consolation that Butch’s courageous work has not been forgotten. Last week, Butch was posthumously conferred the first "Ka Pepe Diokno Award" as a champion of human rights. The award was established by the De La Salle Professional Schools, Inc. Graduate School of Business (DLS-PSI-GSB), which marked another milestone with the establishment also of the Jose W. Diokno Distinguished Professorial Chair in Business Law and Human Rights.
Launched at the DLS-PSI GSB RCBC Campus in Makati City, the professorial chair was established in honor of Senator Diokno’s remarkable achievements in his political career. The late senator is best remembered as a street parliamentarian during martial law days, who fought for the preservation of justice and democracy in the Philippines. Most of all, Senator Diokno made a mark as a human rights advocate and for benchmarking the humanized system of taxation in the country."
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