YOUTH and student organizations will lead the anti-Marcos rally at the Rizal Park in time for President Duterte’s arrival on November 25, a week after the re-interment of the former President Ferdinand E. Marcos’s remains at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
Duterte has been slammed worldwide for permitting the secret re-burial of the despised strongman and even sent a wreath to “prove” he was aware of the burial plans, said the youth group Anakbayan.
Anti-Marcos protests have continued and Anakbayan said it will mobilize members and supporters from different schools and communities to join the Rizal Park protest and other actions across the nation on November 25.
“The youth are not ignorant of the crimes of the Marcos dictatorship from massive corruption to human-rights abuses. We hold Duterte accountable for allowing the hero’s burial of a villainous figure in Philippine history,” Anakbayan National Secretary- General Einstein Recedes said.
Recedes added that the Marcos re-burial at Libingan “proves that Duterte’s political debt to the Marcoses far outweighs the people’s cries for justice, thus exposing his promises of pursuing change and asserting nationalism as empty rhetoric of a double-faced ‘trapo’.”
He said that Duterte is simply continuing the legacy of the past administrations of the two Aquinos, Arroyo, Estrada and Ramos, “all of which did not decisively punish the Marcoses and their cronies and even allowed them to occupy positions in government.”
Recedes said the Filipino youth will rise up by the thousands to pressure Duterte to rethink his evil alliance with the Marcoses, his engaging in blatant historical revisionism and his implementing Marcosian policies that espouse a culture of impunity among the members of state forces and the trampling of human rights.