10 reasons why

Marcos should not

be honored as hero
Joma Sison
By: Kristine Angeli Sabillo - @KSabilloINQ
INQUIRER.net / 01:11 PM November 18, 2016

Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Joma

Sison on Friday reiterated his reasons why former president
Ferdinand Marcos should not have been buried at the Libingan ng
mga Bayani (Heroes Cemetery).
BACKSTORY: Marcos laid to rest in sneaky rites at Libingan ng mga
Bayani

Sison told INQUIRER.net that Marcos is a traitor, a dictator and

proven in court (as a) human rights violator and plunderer.
Sison initially said that the burial will not affect the peace
negotiations between the government and the CPP-National
Democratic Front (NDF) since non-heroes and traitors have already
been buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
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However, he said it will now have an impact on the talks because of

how Duterte and the Armed Forces of the Philippines are making
Marcos a hero and a model.
Labag yan sa CARHRIHL (Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for
Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law) na kumokenda
sa mga human rights violations ni Marcos.

Marcos was buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani on Friday, which

came as a surprise to his critics. The government did not announce
the burial beforehand and only confirmed it when the body was
already being transported on Friday morning.
READ: Solon decries Marcos sneak burial: Galawang magnanakaw

Below are the ten points that Sison raised against Marcos burial at
Libingan ng mga Bayani:
1. The Filipino people cannot allow Ferdinand Marcos, the 14-year
long fascist dictator, a traitor and a criminal of colossal proportions
to be honored in any manner as a hero. They cannot forget and
forgive his gross and systematic violation of human rights. He was
culpable for the murder of at least 3,240 of his political opponents.
He caused the torture of at least 34,000 and the illegal imprisonment
of 70,000. He used his despotic power to enrich himself and his
family. He incurred excessive foreign debt for overpriced
infrastructure projects. He plundered public resources amounting to
at least Php167 billion in pesos and at least $15 billion.
READ: Atrocities of Marcos wont be buried with him at Libingan
priest

2. Marcos was definitively and categorically condemned by the

Filipino people as a fascist dictator and was overthrown from the
presidency through the sovereign revolutionary act of the people who
stormed the presidential palace in 1986 and flooded Edsa to
persuade the reactionary armed forces to withdraw support from him.
Had he not been helicoptered out of his palace by his US imperialist
master, he would have been immediately arrested and tried by the
Filipino people or he would been dealt with summarily like Mussolini
upon the defeat of the fascists in Italy.
READ: Lagman: Marcoses continue to deceive us

3. But even then his thousands of victims of at least 9,500 sued him
for human rights violations in the US judicial system. He was found

criminally culpable for these human rights violations. The heirs of his
estate are under obligation to indemnify the victims. The final US
court decision is accepted by the Philippine government, which has
taken responsibility for processing and distributing indemnification to
victims from the erstwhile Swiss bank deposits of the plunderer
Marcos.
READ: Marcos a thief until the very end Hontiveros

4. In view of its recent decision to allow the remains of Marcos to be

buried in the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB), the current majority of
the Supreme Court should be reminded that the 1973 Constitution
which was used by Marcos to impose fascist dictatorship on the
Filipino people was scrapped upon the downfall of Marcos and was
replaced by the 1987 Constitution. This current Constitution carries
explicit provisions regarding human rights and restraints on
presidential powers by way of condemning and repudiating the
colossal crimes of the Marcos fascist dictatorship. These were
committed through unlimited concentration of executive, legislative
and judicial powers in the hands of one person.
READ: From hidden wealth to hidden burial: Marcoses disrespecting
lawLeni

5. Since the fall of the Marcos dictatorship, the three branches of the
Philippine government have always agreed that the Marcoses have
engaged in the criminal plunder of public resources and that the illgotten wealth must be recovered. Investigations and court
proceedings have been successfully undertaken to establish the
criminal culpability of Marcos for plunder.
6. No less than the chief PDF-Laban party mates of President
Duterte, the founder Aquilino Pimentel Sr. and Senate President
Aquino Pimentel III demand that Marcos should not be honored as a
hero and the victims of the Marcos dictatorship should not be made
to suffer further injustice.

READ: Inclusion of Marcos burial ruling in textbooks opposed

7. Many of those who are personally close to Duterte say that he

should not betray the stand of his own late mother who stood up
articulately and courageously against the Marcos dictatorship. The
Marcos fascist dictatorship is not a good example for Duterte to
project an image of strong leadership. He can make a revolutionary
stand on issues and he can thus stand as a strong leader of the
people.
8. Marcos himself wanted to be buried beside his mother. Why submit
to the political whim of his heirs to use the burial of his remains or
display of his wax figure at LNMB as a means of revising history,
covering up the monstrous crimes of Marcos and boosting the Marcos
familys political stocks.
READ: Marcos burial a dark day in nations history
Karapatan
9. To bury the remains of Marcos in LNMB is a violation of the
agreement of President Ramos and the Marcos family that said
remains must be buried in Batac, Ilocos Norte.
10. Too much public resources will be wasted to secure the remains of
an arch traitor at LNMB from being blown up like the oversized bust
of Marcos on the way to Baguio./rga

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