But while they were able to pull off the burial that had been denied them by Marcos’ successors – with the help of a family friend, President Rodrigo Duterte who sent flowers to the Libingan – it angered human rights groups, opposition politicians and even millennials who did not witness Marcos’ one-man rule.
On Friday, hundreds of protesters converged at the monument on EDSA erected to commemorate Marcos’ overthrow by the “People Power†revolt in 1986.
“It was a Pyrrhic victory [for the Marcoses]. It only reopened old wounds, restarted the anti-Marcos movement, and transferred this to the millennial generation,†political analyst Ramon Casiple, executive director of the Institute for Political and Electoral Reforms, said in an interview.
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