Marcos Rule Victims Receive $1000 Each

Seventy five hundred Filipino victims of the brutal dictatorship start to receive roughly PHP 44, 000 as compensation to the trampling of their human rights. The amount is morsel but frankly; it tells that the Marcos dictatorship is guilty in abusing the rights of its citizens when in those dark nights, human life and dignity were taken for granted.

Political killings do still happen these days but they cannot absolve the cruelty of the dictatorship of Mr. Marcos nor it is logical to say that Marcos years were better than now.

How could Ilocano Marcos fanatics explain that when their idol was in power, Filipinos suffered vicious acts from the hands of the government instead of being protected? Mr. Marcos was the ruler with an iron fist and it is foolish to blame others in the commission of the atrocities that made a Filipino life cheap.

Now there are clamors that the former president deserves to be buried in the Libingan (National Heroes Cemetery).

Is that not an insult to the real heroes and heroines interred in there? If Mr. Marcos is buried at the Libingan, would it not desecrate the ground? Consider 7,500 victims of that brutal regime.

As one of the more opinionated men in the Senate, hopefully, in the days ahead, Sen. Bongbong Marcos gives his side on why a huge number of his countrymen were dehumanized during the reign of his Dad.

For sure, the nation is interested to listen.