Former President Marcos: Buried at LNMB earlier today

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Former President Ferdinand Marcos is finally buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani Friday, 27 years after his death.

Marcos' remains were transported yet to be Friday from the Marcos Museum and Mausoleum in Batac, his hometown in Ilocos Norte to the Heroes' Cemetery in Taguig City. His body arrived at the Heroes' Cemetery in the by now noon, National Capital Region Police Office Chief Oscar Albayalde.

Members of the media were not allowed to witness the ceremonies.

Albayalde said Marcos was massive a 21-gun salute. Several soldiers in green uniform were seen standing in a formation coarsely speaking noontime.

Earlier, Albayalde described it as a "no scrutinize easy and highly brusque ceremony."

Marcos was buried at the Heroes' Cemetery regarding "Black Friday," a pronounce solution by Marcos' critics as they preserve great protests adjoining Marcos' burial in several areas in Metro Manila.

Anti-Marcos burial petitioners denounced the "rushed" burial.

Former Bayan Party-list representative Satur Ocampo said the petitioners were shocked to know very roughly the burial, because they had just announced that they would file a leisure movement for reconsideration to decrease the burial.

Philippine National Police Chief Ronald Dela Rosa earlier told to media, he lonesome found out Thursday that the burial will shove through the adjacent hours of day. He said President Rodrigo Duterte knew more or less the planned burial.

"Alam niya (Duterte) iyan, wala naman tayong espesyal na opinion. Maniguro lang tayo na peaceful yung paglibing, walang gulo na mangyari," Dela Rosa said.

[Translation: "(Duterte) knows. There are no special instructions. We just have to make flattering the burial is peaceful and there nothing untoward happens."]

The long road to LNMB burial
Marcos died in exile in Hawaii in 1989 after a people action revolt ousted him in 1986.

His remains have by now been kept in an flavor-conditioned crypt in the Marcos Museum once the body was brought protection to the country in 1993.

A 1992 appointment as well as in addition to President Fidel Ramos and the Marcos associates allowed Marcos to be buried in the Philippines but going going regarding for for conditions that the body would be flown straight to Ilocos Norte and there would be no burial for Marcos at the Heroes' Cemetery.

Marcos' critics opposed the burial at the Libingan because of the alleged human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings, torture, and enforced disappearances involved during his term.

His relatives is as well as accused of buildup poorly-gotten loads   during his years in triumph.

The Presidential Commission concerning Good Government said for on summit of 20 years, the Marcoses were nimble to grow just very approximately US$5-10 billion of riches from the Philippine incline.

President Rodrigo Duterte gave Marcos family and supporters a flicker of goal once he ordered Marcos' burial at the Heroes' Cemetery upon August 7.

The Philippine Army started considering its preparations, as well as pending petitions of Martial doing victims at the Supreme Court.  

On August 23, the High Court issued a stay order to point the preparations.

After more than two months of hearing oral arguments neighboring to the burial, the Supreme Court upon November 8 dismissed all the petitions, finally allowing Marcos' burial at the Libingan by a vote of 9-5.

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