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Activists break through police line to reach 'Libingan'

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<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SFWPhc6G-js" width="560"></iframe></figure><p>MANILA - Over a hundred protesters from the Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses, the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), and militant party-list groups broke through a police human blockade at the entrance of Bayani Road leading to the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB) on Thursday.</p><p>After a 15-minute scuffle, activists, including several senior citizens who were victims of torture and detention under the Marcos dictatorship, pushed cops back to rush to the gates of the heroes&#x27; cemetery.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/suvZgM_8Apk" width="560"></iframe></figure><p>They held a half-hour program to denounce moves allowing the burial for the later dictator Ferdinand Marcos scheduled on September 18.</p><p>Nobody was hurt in the scuffle though some older protesters complained of being hit by cops&#x27; shields.</p><p>Bayan secretary-general Renato Reyes railed at police ground commanders, who initially refused to face him, reminding them that President Rodrigo Duterte had pledged not to stop protest actions against the Marcos family.</p><script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="~/CMSPages/GetResource.ashx?scriptfile=~/cmsscripts/custom/abs-cbn-news/abscbnmaster/newsv2-1.2.9.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script><div id="galleria"><a href="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/8/18/081816_activist1.jpg"><img data-description="Photos by Inday Espina Varona and Peachy Tan for ABS-CBN News" data-title="Activists break through police line to reach " src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/8/18/081816_activist1.jpg"/> </a> <a href="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/8/18/081816_activist2.jpg"> <img data-description="Photos by Inday Espina Varona and Peachy Tan for ABS-CBN News" data-title="Activists break through police line to reach " src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/8/18/081816_activist2.jpg"/> </a> <a href="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/8/18/081816_activist3.jpg"> <img data-description="Photos by Inday Espina Varona and Peachy Tan for ABS-CBN News" data-title="Activists break through police line to reach " src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/nation/8/18/081816_activist3.jpg"/> </a></div><script type="text/javascript">Galleria.loadTheme('//abscbnnewsml.blob.core.windows.net/themes/default-gallery/themes/themev2/galleria.azur.min.js');Galleria.run('#galleria', {trueFullscreen: true, height: 500,});	</script><p>Reyes said the LNMB burial next month was more for the rehabilitation of the reputations of the dictator&#x27;s heirs.</p><p>He described Marcos&#x27; widow, Imelda, and children as unrepentant active partners of the 20-year dictatorship.</p><p>Artist-activist Mae Paner, as Juana Change the Imeldific, chided cops.</p><p>&quot;Move on! Move on na! Nag move on ang Pilipino ng pinatalsik ang diktador! Move on the din kayo. Masyado kayo throwback sa dictatorship,&quot; Paner said.</p><p>Police officials later clarified they were not given orders to block protesters. There was only a misunderstanding, they said.</p>

<p>MANILA - Over a hundred protesters from the Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses, the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), and militant party-list groups broke through a police human blockade at the entrance of Bayani Road leading to the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB).</p>

MANILA - Over a hundred protesters from the Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses, the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan), and militant party-list groups broke through a police human blockade at the entrance of Bayani Road leading to the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB).

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Activists break through police line to reach 'Libingan'

Inday Espina-varona,

ABS-CBN News

Published August 18, 2016 02:16 PM PHT

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