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DLSU law dean: Was Marcos’ body really buried at LNMB?

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Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News

<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-rSZus21Eb0?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0" width="560"></iframe></figure>MANILA - De La Salle University College of Law Dean Jose Manuel Diokno has doubts on whether the casket interred by the Marcos family at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB) on Friday contained the real remains of the late dictator.Diokno said he received information that the body of Ferdinand Marcos Sr. is still being displayed in Batac, Ilocos Norte and that no one saw the actual remains being buried at the heroes&#x27; cemetery.&quot;I understand that the Marcos family has always maintained that [the] body displayed in Batac is the actual body of Marcos. But from the information I have received, that body on display is still on display in Batac and no one has actually seen any actual remains that were brought and buried here in the Libingan,” Diokno told Nancy Irlanda on ANC’s “News Now.”Marcos died in exile in Honolulu on September 28, 1989. His body was kept in a refrigerated crypt in Batac since 1993, that is until the Supreme Court <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/11/08/16/sc-allows-marcos-burial-in-libingan-ng-mga-bayani">allowed</a> a burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.Police, however, confirmed that Marcos&#x27; blody was flown out at 9 a.m. Friday on board a military helicopter for the burial.<ul class="op-related-articles" title="Read">	<li>READ: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/11/18/16/tourists-line-up-in-mausoleum-dismayed-that-only-marcos-wax-left">Tourists line up in mausoleum, dismayed that only Marcos wax left</a></li></ul>Diokno said the public deserves to know whether it was the actual remains of Marcos that were buried at the LNMB.“I think it’s a legitimate issue and the people deserve to know, what, if anything was actually buried in the Libingan and also, they deserve to verify the claim of the Marcos family that they’ve always said what was on display in Batac is the actual remains of Mr. Marcos,” he said.The son of of human rights champion and martial law freedom fighter Jose &quot;Pepe&quot; Diokno, the law dean added that the Marcos burial leaves him with a “terrible feeling” but that he is happy that his father is not buried at the LNMB.“It’s really a terrible feeling because he (Pepe Diokno) was detained for two years with no legal reason at all. We got to see firsthand the kind of oppression that reigned during the martial law,” he said.

MANILA- De La Salle University College of Law Dean Jose Manuel Diokno has doubts on whether the casket interred by the Marcos family at the Libingan ng Mga Bayani (LNMB) on Friday contained the real remains of the late dictator.

MANILA- De La Salle University College of Law Dean Jose Manuel Diokno has doubts on whether the casket interred by the Marcos family at the Libingan ng Mga Bayani (LNMB) on Friday contained the real remains of the late dictator.

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DLSU law dean: Was Marcos’ body really buried at LNMB?

Arianne Merez,

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Published November 19, 2016 05:16 PM PHT

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