President Rodrigo Duterte expressed hope that Filipinos, especially Martial Law victims, will find it in their hearts to forgive the former strongman, Ferdinand Marcos.
“Well, it seems to be a very raucous issue for the nation but I would like to pray that everybody would find a space in his heart for forgiveness,” Duterte said when asked about the surprise burial of Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani upon the president’s arrival in Peru to attend this weekend’s 24th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit.
The chief executive reiterated he was just being legally strict about the Marcos burial after the Supreme Court last week voted 9-5-1 to allow the former president to be laid to rest.
He also urged people who have been hurt or injured by the Marcos regime to file a case as an option instead.
But he stressed “You know, the sins cannot beset the children and liability is always personal. That’s a principle of law na sinusunod natin. Sana at the day of the burial, they might just want also to stretch more of their understanding of what happened to our country.”
According to Duterte, the issue has “divided the nation although not that widespread.”
“But you can be very sure that all the Ilokano-speaking people are really hurt, they are dismayed and it’s been there floating like a flotsam, we have to decide once and for all,” said Duterte.
“And me I was just being legally strict about it. President Marcos was a president for so long and he was a soldier. So that’s about it. Whether or not he performed worse or better, there is no study, there is no movie about it. It’s just the challenges and allegations of the other side which is not enough.”
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