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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2016/nation2/05/12/joma-sison-051216.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison</div></figcaption></figure></div>MANILA - Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison on Saturday reiterated that he <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/06/02/16/joma-sison-oks-heros-burial-for-marcos-but">sees no problem</a> with the decision of President-elect Rodrigo Duterte to allow the burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.In a Facebook post, Sison, who has been in exile in The Netherlands since 1987, stressed that Marcos will be buried there not as a hero but as a soldier.He also pointed out that he considers the Libingan ng mga Bayani a burial ground &quot;for many traitors and enemies of the Filipino people.&quot;He said these include alleged Filipino mercenaries of the US in the United States Allied Freedom Fighters of the East (USAFFE), soldiers of the reactionary government, pro-US Filipino diplomat Carlos P. Romulo, &quot;and about three puppet and corrupt former presidents.&quot;&quot;I have been asked by the journalists whether the decision of President Duterte to allow the burial of Marcos&#x27; remains at the so-called Libingan ng mga Bayani would upset the peace negotiations in view of widespread protest and resistance on the premise that Marcos would be honored as hero by being buried in what I consider a cemetery of many traitors,&quot; Sison said in his post.&quot;I said no and I pointed out that President Duterte himself had clarified that Marcos was being buried at the Libingan not as a hero but as a soldier.&quot;READ: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/halalan2016/nation/05/26/16/duterte-on-marcos-burial-it-is-my-sole-decision">Duterte on Marcos burial: It is my sole decision</a>Sison, however, said he continues to sympathize with those who do not wish to honor Marcos as a hero.He agreed that Marcos was &quot;conclusively defined as a traitor by his fascist dictatorship and by his monstrous human rights violations and corruption.&quot;The late dictator and his wife, Imelda, have been accused of plundering $10 billion from government coffers and overseeing widespread human rights abuses by security forces during Marcos&#x27; regime.Marcos&#x27; only son and namesake, Senator Bongbong Marcos, has repeatedly said that it is his father&#x27;s right to be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.The Marcos patriarch died in exile in the US in 1989. His body remains in a glass coffin in a mausoleum in his hometown in Ilocos Norte.While he guaranteed that the burial of Marcos at the Heroes&#x27; Cemetery will not get in the way of the Reds&#x27; peace talks with Duterte&#x27;s government, Sison believes the remains of the late dictator will be better guarded in Ilocos Norte.&quot;The Marcos family should keep the remains of Marcos in Ilocos Norte where these are better guarded by his followers than at the Libingan. They should remember that the big bust of Marcos along the Kennon Road was successfully blown up by his so many victims,&quot; he said.READ: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/focus/06/02/16/marcos-heros-burial-not-a-deal-breaker-for-ndf">Marcos hero&#x27;s burial not a deal breaker for NDF</a>

MANILA - Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison on Saturday reiterated that he sees no problem with the decision of President-elect Rodrigo Duterte to allow the burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.

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Joma Sison: Marcos burial won't upset peace talks with Duterte gov't

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Published June 04, 2016 03:26 PM PHT

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