The former Philippine dictator, Ferdinand Marcos, has been given a hero’s burial with military honours, a deeply controversial move three decades after he was ousted in a “People Power” revolution. The surprise move by the Marcos family and the government to bury him so quickly after the court verdict, with appeals still to be heard, caused further outrage. Marcos flouted the law when he was still alive, and even at his burial, he is still breaking the law,” Gutierrez told AFP. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos with US president Ronald Reagan in 1982. The family’s fortunes changed with the election of Duterte, a longtime ally of the Marcos family, as president in May this year.

Source: The Guardian November 18, 2016 05:27 UTC