Anakbayan-Europe,
November 26, 2016
Our generation has been spared from the dark days of Martial Law declared by the Dictator Ferdinand Marcos four decades ago. To permit Marcos to be buried at the Heroes Cemetery is a great insult to the martyrs of the Martial Law days who fought for what we, especially millennials are practicing today.
On November 8, 2016 the Supreme Court of the Philippines rejected the protests and petitions of the Filipino people that the Dictator Marcos is inapt to be buried at the Heroes Cemetery. In a 9-5 split decision, the SC proves where its loyalty lies.
During the 10 years of military rule in the country, oppositions have been witch-hunted that resulted to 70,000 Filipinos arbitrarily detained, an estimated number of 34,000 were odiously tortured, extra-judicial killings numbered to 3,240 and thousands remained missing.
Having plundered the wealth of the nation and collaborating with the imperialists forces, the father of the Labour Export Policy (LEP) has now been buried as ‘hero’.
Anakbayan-Europe decry the treacherous decision of the Supreme Court and the support of President Rodrigo Duterte. Marcos exported not only the country’s natural resources but as well as its citizens, paving way to the 10% of the Filipino people working abroad.
We denounce the national disgrace of the SC, Pres. Rodrigo Duterte and the Marcos’ family against the Filipino people. Ferdinand Marcos deserves not to rest in peace as thousands of family still grieve their martyrs and disappeared, as thousands of Martial Law survivors still suffer from traumas and emotional wreckage from his atrocities. The Marcos family should not have victory over the decision of the SC, they are as accountable as Ferdinand himself.
Anakbayan-Europe supports the Filipino people in the Philippines and around the world as different sectors of the Philippine society staged protests and campaigns to revise the order of the SC and not the history. We support the Filipino migrants whose family has been wrecked due to the LEP that Marcos implemented. We support the millennials whose 10% grew up with [n]either one of their parents. We recognize that these are the Filipino people who overthrew the Dictator Marcos, that the victims of the Marcos’ military rules were mostly patriotic youth.
We denounce the continuous revisions of our history!
WE WILL NEVER FORGET!
WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER!
MABUHAY ANG MGA BAYANI NG MARTIAL LAW!
MABUHAY ANG MGA KABATAANG LUMALABAN!
Anakbayan-Europe
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