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Vindictiveness FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 06/19/2011

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Vindictiveness

FRONTLINE
Ninez Cacho-Olivares
06/19/2011
It certainly looks like the spirit of vindictiveness in Noynoy lives on and strongly.

The latest word on the Marcos burial issue is that Noynoy is not even bent on giving Marcos military honors, as Vice President Jojo Binay had recommended, after conducting an exhaustive survey among various sectors of society and coming up with what can be called a “win-win” solution: Burial in Ilocos, and military honors of Ferdinand Marcos.

But even the military honors will be denied Marcos, although instead of owning to the fact that it is Noynoy himself who does not want it at all, he is using as his excuse the so-called victims of martial law who oppose it. He also uses another excuse, which is that Marcos may have already been given military honors when his remains were brought home for his burial in a refrigirated crypt in Ilocos.

But definitely, it is still his and his family’s vindictiveness that has kept him from giving Marcos the military honors..... MORE

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