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Supreme betrayal
(Due to its timeliness, we yield this place to the official statement of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines – Western Visayas on the Marcos burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. – Ed.)
THE SUPREME Court, the supposed bastion of justice and fairness in the country, has betrayed the Filipino people.
We, the College Editors Guild of the Philippines – Western Visayas chapter, condemn the decision of the high court to allow the burial of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB).
It is a great affront to the victims of Martial Law and to the Filipino people to attach the honorific of “bayani” to a reprehensible character responsible for one of the darkest times in the history of our country.
This clear effort to bury the atrocities of the tyrant Marcos and revise history, undoes the years our country has had to endure to recover and come to terms with the violent and bloody regime of Martial Law.
Marcos’ burial at LNMB is a grave insult to those who fought for justice, human rights and genuine freedom to topple his oppressive reign.
The late dictator looted billions from the country, imprisoned and sanctioned the torture of thousands of his critics, silenced and censored the media, and is liable for the prevalence of unlawful deaths and forced disappearances under his regime.
There is no place for Marcos at LNMB. The Libingan ng mga Bayani is no place to bury the truth and the horrendous crimes of Marcos.
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