50% of Filipinos want hero’s burial for Marcos — poll 03/31/2011

50% of Filipinos want hero’s burial for Marcos — poll

03/31/2011
Half of the population in the Philippines want to give late dictator Ferdinand Marcos a belated hero’s burial, according to survey released last Wednesday.

Fifty percent of respondents said Marcos was “worthy to be buried in the heroes’ cemetery,” according to the respected Social Weather Stations research group, which undertook the nationwide survey.

But 49 percent said Marcos was unworthy of such honors while one percent did not answer, the research group said.

The survey of 1,200 adults, conducted this month, came amid growing pressure by the Marcos family and its allies to have the late President interred in a Manila cemetery normally reserved for military veterans and respected leaders..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110331nat1.html