On November 18, 2016, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. was buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB). On this tragic day, people spontaneously expressed dissent, outrage and indignation at this betrayal of our beloved country by going out into the streets. We went out because we had not forgotten.…
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Anna Marie A. Karaos, Associate Director and Head of the Urban Poverty and Governance Program of the John J. Carroll Institute on Church and Social Issues, gave this presentation at the 115th Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) Plenary Assembly held on July 9, 2017 at the Pope Pius…
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A statement that appeared in an article in The Economist concerning the government’s decision to allow the burial of former president Ferdinand Marcos’ remains in the Libingan ng mga Bayani says it well: “… [A]s one strongman buries another, the Philippines appears to be moving backward, not forward.” It won’t…
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I fought hard to recover from the sickening news of the Supreme Court’s decision on the Marcos burial. After two previous decisions that allowed the release from detention of former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and former senator Juan Ponce Enrile, both charged with the crime of plunder, this decision is…
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To our dear sisters and brothers in our Jesuit institutions and communities, Once more we find ourselves in tumultuous times. Amidst the many issues confronting our country—extra-judicial killings, constitutional change, “rhetorical” threats to impose martial law, and the Marcos burial in the Libingan ng mga Bayani—we find ourselves torn as…
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Millennials against the Marcos burial
I never thought I could be grateful to the Marcoses for anything. But their insistence on burying the dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos’ remains in the Libingan ng mga Bayani has given me a precious gift: hope in the next generation. Until the day the Supreme Court ruled to allow the…