ATENEANS marched the street of Katipunan, not once, not twice, but thrice this year as the news about the dictator Ferdinand Marcos being buried at the Libingan ng Mga Bayani reached campus. Together with representatives from UP and Miriam, thousands of students and teachers showed their outrage that Marcos, a president who damaged our economy for personal gain, a president who was the cause of the suffering of so many Filipinos, was going to be buried at the burial site of our heroes. It seemed surreal. How can the government so easily forget? Marcos gets a hero’s burial while some martial law victims are still in unmarked graves. When President Duterte asked people to “move on” and “forgive” it only opened up old wounds. Without even an apology from the Marcos family that plundered our nation, we cannot truly move on. Forgiveness demands justice.

With 70,000 people imprisoned, 34,000 tortured, and 3,257 dead at the hands of the Marcos regime, after all the terrible things that he did to our beloved country, how can one call him a great president, let alone a hero?

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