With mixed shock, anger, frustration, and outrage, hundreds of Filipinos gathered at Rizal Park in Manila amid intermittent rain to express their resounding opposition to the proposed burial of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
The tortured and the arrested during the dark days of martial law, human rights advocates, lawmakers, students, and citizens stood united against the plan of President Rodrigo Duterte to accord Marcos a hero’s interment.
“Marcos is not a hero,” they declared. A hero does not lie, steal, or kill, they said.
