Relatives of victims of his rule asked the Supreme Court Monday to dig up his remains, claiming they had not been given enough time to appeal a ruling allowing his burial in the cemetrey. Two weeks ago the Supreme Court endorsed a decision by President Rodrigo Duterte to bury the dictator at the heroes' cemetrey. "If you exhume that body, you disinter Marcos, then the motions for reconsideration" can be heard by the court, Lagman told ABS-CBN television. Another group representing victims of his martial law Monday asked the Supreme Court to cite the Marcos family and the military for contempt for organising the burial. Duterte has defended the burial, saying laws entitled Marcos to be buried at the heroes' cemetrey as a former president and soldier.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 21, 2016 06:42 UTC