Category: Photo Essay

No hero’s burial to a non-hero

Davinci Maru

Text and Photos by DAVINCI MARU

With mixed shock, anger, frustration, and outrage, hundreds of Filipinos gathered at Rizal Park in Manila amid intermittent rain to express their resounding opposition to the proposed burial of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.

The tortured and the arrested during the dark days of martial law, human rights advocates, lawmakers, students, and citizens stood united against the plan of President Rodrigo Duterte to accord Marcos a hero’s interment.

“Marcos is not a hero,” they declared. A hero does not lie, steal, or kill, they said.

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EDSA@30: An Unfinished Revolution

Davinci Maru

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Text and Photos by DAVINCI S. MARU

THIRTY years after the EDSA People Power revolt of 1986, protest marches linger. The protesters hurling often sharp and bitter critique of the myriad reforms that many had expected would follow the fall of the Marcos regime, and the peaceful transition from authoritarianism to democracy.

But EDSA was all of so many things to many people, an inchoate bundle of hopes and dreams not quite easy to fulfill. The expectations were so rich and enormous that not any four-day revolt by any number of street marches could deliver all at once — not just rights restored but also lives improved, and not just repression quashed but also good governance served on a silver platter.

And so, three decades hence, the marches continue.

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