MANILA, Philippines - President Rodrigo Duterte has broken
with his predecessors and finally ordered the burial of Ferdinand
Marcos, the infamous former Philippine president who died 27 years ago,
in a cemetery reserved 
for war heroes and eminent individuals.
Duterte
said burying Marcos at the Libingan Ng Mga Bayani (Heroes' Cemetery)
would heal political divisions and honor Marcos as a World War II
veteran.
- The interment has been provisionally scheduled for Sept. 18, according to the Philippine Star newspaper.
- The disgraced former president is accused of plundering billions in public funds and grave abuses of human rights.
- "We are a divided nation," Duterte said on Sunday, arguing that the former dictator is "qualified" for an honorable burial. "The family has that right to bury their father or husband because he was president of the Republic of the Philippines, and he was a soldier at one time".
The
Marcos family has kept the former president unburied until its
long-standing request that he be laid to rest in the Heroes' Cemetery is
granted. Duterte's predecessors all refused permission due to
opposition from his surviving victims during the martial law years.
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