Do You Agree On Ferdinand Marcos Hero's Burial?

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Do You Agree On Ferdinand Marcos Hero's Burial?

It is 100 percent confirmed that incoming President Rodrigo Duterte will allow Ferdinand Marcos Sr. a hero's burial (also known as Libingan ng mga Bayani).

The statement by Mayor Duterte, are sure to anger critics who warned ahead of his landslide election win on 9 May that he was a dictator in the making with no respect for the rule of law.

Talking in his town of Davao, Digong said he was prepared to risk countrywide unrest on the flash point issues surrounding two of the nation’s most controversial Filipino.

“I will allow the burial of Marcos in the Heroes’ Cemetery, not because he was a hero but because he was a Filipino soldier,” Duterte told reporters.

Duterte also said he wanted to have the body of Marcos, presently embalmed and enclosed in a glass casket, to be buried at the Heroes’ Cemetery to end decades of divisions in the country over the issue.

Critics Said - It Will Whitewash All Crimes Marcos Committed

“Burying him at the (cemetery) will whitewash all crimes he committed against the people and will send the wrong message to the world: that in the Philippines, crime pays,” Bonifacio Ilagan, who was detained and tortured by Marcos forces, told AFP.

Ilagan, who heads a group trying to stop the Marcos family from returning to power, said the highly emotional and symbolic burial of the dictator at the cemetery — where the nation’s most revered war heroes have been laid to rest — would trigger street protests.

“I will allow protests,” Duterte said when asked about the anticipated response .

Duterte said he would grant the long-standing wish of the Marcos family to have the patriarch buried at a Libingan ng mga Bayani for some of the nation’s most honorable war heroes.

All have said, we know it will be done by Mayor Digong. Now, what is your opinion about this?

Do you agree or not?