Friday, 18 November 2016

Philippine dictator Marcos to be given hero’s burial today

 Ex-Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos will be buried at the national heroes’ cemetery  today, police said ...

Friday November 18, 2016
12:05 PM GMT+8

Photographs and posters on the wall of former Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda Marcos inside the Marcos Museum in Sarrat, Philippines, March 1, 2010. — NYT pic
Photographs and posters on the wall of former Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda Marcos inside the Marcos Museum in Sarrat, Philippines, March 1, 2010. — NYT picMANILA, Nov 18 — Ex-Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos will be buried at the national heroes’ cemetery  today, police said, a deeply controversial move three decades after he was ousted in a “People Power” revolution.
“It will be a state funeral but it will be a very simple one. Military honours will be given to him,” Manila police chief Oscar Albayalde told ABS-CBN television. — AFP 

Wasn't he deposed by People Power?
How come he suddenly become a hero?

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/world/article/philippine-dictator-marcos-to-be-given-heros-burial-today