My apologies to former President Joseph Estrada, and knock on wood. But there isn’t any other case I can use in order to objectively and logically analyze an issue hogging the headlines in recent weeks: former strongman – and president — Ferdinand Marcos’ burial at the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) official cemetery, called the Libingan ng mga Bayani. President Duterte has allowed the burial set for September 18, defying the objection of even his allies.

Estrada was a President of the Republic and, therefore, certainly complies with the AFP’s guidelines that those who can be buried there are “former presidents, secretaries of defense, dignitaries, statesmen, national artists, widows of former presidents, secretaries of national defense and chief of staff.”

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