NEWS RELEASE

November 8, 2016
Reference: Mic Catuira, Acting Secretary-General, 0943-4968763

No to Marcos Burial at Libingan ng

mga Bayani! Migrante
Migrante International said that overseas Filipinos and their families join other sectors in
strongly opposing the
Duterte governments
plan to bury the
remains of late dictator
Ferdinand Marcos at the
Libingan ng mga Bayani.
Marcos is no hero.
Generations upon
generations of overseas
Filipinos and immigrants
know this, especially
those who were forced to
flee the country in fear of their lives during Martial Law. Siya ang dahilan kung bakit
maraming mga kababayan natin ang nawalay sa kanilang mga pamilya noong Batas
Militar, said Mic Catuira, Migrante International Acting Secretary-General.
Catuira said that Marcos, his widow and his family remain an international disgrace to
Filipinos around the world for all the crimes and transgressions they caused the Filipino
people during the former presidents dictatorship.
The migrant leader also pointed out that it was during Marcos time that the labor export
policy was institutionalized.
Now, four decades after, our OFWs continue to bear the brunt of this policy that has
placed the domestic economy hostage to neoliberal dictates and the exploitation of our

cheap labor. Burying Marcos in the Libingan ng mga Bayani is a grave injustice and insult
to our living heroes, our OFWs. ###