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responsibility to bury
Ferdinand Marcos in
"Libingan ng mga
Bayani"
Author: Holden De La Cruz
UPDATED: 5 MONTHS AGO
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To bury Marcos is not to exonerate the man. To bury him is to reiterate our sense of
humanity and respect for the dead whichever side of history we are vehemently on.
To bury Marcos at the Libingan is to invite discussions on what the man really was,
human as he is, and to put him in greater national discourse.
Let those who are long dead rest for they cannot defend themselves. Let our sense of
justice be bigger than our personal pains.
We can vilify and continue to mock any dead man and put him in the magnifying glass
of history and let all his deeds be judged and weighed by the scales of justice but we do
not drag the bare skeletons and deny any human a proper burial.
That is not us. And we shall never become the perceived 'monsters' we fought hard to
vanquish.
For what 'sins' can a dead man defend himself? For what amount of blood and hate do
we need to atone and redeem a dead man?
With these, I firmly believe that Ferdinand Marcos deserves to be buried in the Libingan
ng mga Bayani.