Earlier on Sunday President Duterte said that dozens of current or former politicians, officials and judges with links to illegal drugs must surrender and be investigated.
In a nationally televised address, he named those he was accusing and ordered their security to be withdrawn. Duterte: 'Punisher' to president. Local media reports say some of those named have been misidentified. But Mr Duterte said he would take full responsibility for any who turned out to be innocent. Mr Duterte was sworn in as president in June, after winning a landslide election victory a month earlier.
He had previously been mayor of the country's third biggest city, Davao, for 22 years where his tough approach and controversial comments earned him the nickname "The Punisher". Duterte: The 'strongman' of the Philippines. President Rodrigo Duterte, who is attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru, had ordered the burial in August, fulfilling an election campaign promise. Marcos's eldest daughter, Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos, thanked Duterte for allowing her father, a former soldier and guerrilla leader during the Second World War, to be laid to rest with soldiers.
She also asked people to understand the family's decision to keep the ceremony "simple, private and solemn". Human rights groups opposed his burial at the heroes' cemetery south of Manila but the Philippines Supreme Court ruled against their protests last week.
He, however, refused to give full state honors to the former president who put the country under Martial Law. Marcos' body was flown via a chartered Continental Airlines jet direct to his home province, Ilocos Norte. On September 7, , 4 years since his death, Marcos' body inside a " black-lacquered, gold-handled casket " finally returned to the country he ruled for more than two decades.
The direct flight, according to former interior secretary Rafael Alunan III in , was part of the deal signed by the Philippine government and the Marcos family. School children wave Philippine flags with a portrait of the late Ferdinand Marcos on them as a hearse carrying Marcos' coffin travels in a motorcade through his hometown of Batac.
Thousands of supporters, mostly Ilocanos, welcomed the remains of Apo Marcos at the Laoag International Airport in a ceremony described by the New York Times as " a macabre and festive spectacle.
There was a lot of "singing, dancing, and various rituals," according to news reports then, as his casket was placed on a platform for all to see. Aside from the ordinary Marcos supporters, government officials who served during his administration, along with other allies, were also present when his body arrived. Former First Lady Imelda Marcos sprinkles holy water on the flag-draped coffin of her late husband Ferdinand Marcos during a memorial Mass at the Saint William Cathedral in the Philippines while her family watches.
The casket was then transported using a horse-drawn caisson to the Laoag Cathedral as huge crowds gathered along the roads leading to the church. Since the government then refused to allow him to be buried in the Heroes' Cemetery, Marcos' body was interred in a glass crypt in the Marcos Museum and Mausoleum in Batac City, Ilocos Norte.
Through the years, tourists and loyalists alike have flocked to the museum to view the body of Marcos. The embalmed body of Ferdinand Marcos is seen through a sealed glass coffin inside a dimly lighted mausoleum in his northern Philippine hometown on September 11, Hide Caption.
People braved the heavy but intermittent showers to voice their outrage over the decision to move the former dictator's body. Marcos ruled with an iron fist for two-and-a-half decades, and is accused of widespread corruption, overseeing torture and killings.
The location of the protest was significant — a park honoring Lapu-Lapu, the warrior recognized as the Philippines' "first hero" for his uprising against Spanish colonial occupation in The burial ceremony is planned for September Former congressman Walden Bello compared interring Marcos in the cemetery as akin to "burying Al Capone in Arlington National Cemetery" — although he added: "Marcos was worse.
President Rodrigo Duterte's penchant for hard line tactics, which have created an uptick in violent vigilante killings across the country, has some recalling dark days under Marcos. Story highlights Surprise announcement follows protests and a quashed court appeal Police chief only found out 24 hours ago that the burial would take place.
The surprise decision to give the former dictator a hero's burial Friday has triggered protests by opponents who had launched a court challenge to have the burial stopped. The burial marks the end of a three-decade-long campaign by his family to have his remains buried in the cemetery, the national monument known as "Libingan ng mga Bayani" in Tagalog. Many Filipinos object to his interment in the heroes' cemetery, given how brutal his rule was.
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