Honoring Marcos: A Distortion of History – AFAD

Mugiyanto-AFAD Chairperson

Mary Aileen Bacalso- Sec-Gen AFAD

The House Resolution No. 1135, reviving the desperate move to bury the late-dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani is betraying the Filipino people with its distortion of history and is insulting our very dignity as a nation.

The resolution which has already been signed by more than 200 members of the House of Representatives manifests a shameful ignorance of our nation’s history.  It tramples on the collective dignity of the Filipino people especially of those who valiantly struggled during the dark days of Martial Law, some of whom suffered persecution and consequently lost their lives. The late Senator Benigno Aquino was among them.

It is quite an irony to give Marcos a “hero’s burial” while granting the victims of human rights violations symbolic compensation from his ill-gotten wealth. The dictator Marcos, accused of committing widespread human rights abuses and looting billions of dollars from state coffers during his 20-year dictatorship, was judged guilty of human rights violations by US Federal Courts.

[Petition] Marcos is not a hero! Protest the plan to make him one!

FERDINAND E. MARCOS is not a hero to the Filipino people. His martial law regime sent hundreds of thousands to jail, made people disappeared because of their political beliefs.  He is now being elevated to become a "hero" and plans are afoot by his families and allies to have him interred in Libingan ng mga Bayani (Cemetery of Heroes).