After the ouster of Marcos following the 1986 EDSA Revolution , Reyes was named by President Corazon Aquino as Vice-Chairman of the newly created Commission on Human Rights . However , he resigned from that post in January 1987 in protest of the murder of several unarmed farmers by policemen in Mendiola . Reyes then retired to private life and died aged 92 in 1994 . He is buried at the Loyola Memorial Cemetery in Marikina
murder of several unarmed farmers
Mendiola massacre
J. B. L. Reyes