Reds hit Duterte over 'bullheaded' decision to bury Marcos in heroes' cemetery

BAGUIO CITY — Yet another exchange of harsh words.

 

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) called President Rodrigo Duterte "bullheaded" over his decision to bury former President Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.

 

“By claiming Marcos deserves to be buried with other former soldiers, Duterte is helping perpetuate the historical lies surrounding Marcos’ bogus medals and phoney Maharlika guerrilla unit,” the CPP said in a statement.

 

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“By further ordering that Marcos be accorded military honours befitting a former head of state, Duterte is virtually deleting Marcos’ bloody record as a military despot and the fascist violence, human rights violation, corruption and economic hardships he made the Filipino people suffer through 14 years of dictatorship.”

 

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The CPP said the "Filipino people hold all post-Marcos regimes equally culpable for the political restoration of the Marcos family—Imelda and their children, who all took part in the machinations of the Marcos dictatorship.”

The CPP said Duterte's flaunting of his alliance with the Marcos family is helping with the “Marcosian scheme” to revise history and make younger generations overlook the “colossal plunder and sale of the country’s patrimony, his debt-borrowing debt spree, his legacy of gross cronyism, his family’s ostentatious lifestyle built upon the poverty of the people, and his martial law’s massacre of freedom and democracy.” 

 

The communist group hit the president's decision which it said displays extreme insensitivity to the sensibilities of the thousands of martial law victims and their families.

 

“[Duterte] insults the memory of thousands of patriotic Filipinos from all walks of life who gave up their lives at the prime of their youth to fight for the dictatorship’s overthrow,” it added.