Jalandoni: Marcos burial may affect peace talks

BAGUIO CITY – Former National Democratic Front of the Philippines peace panel chief negotiator Luis Jalandoni said the burial of dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani may affect the peace talks, and claimed the Duterte administration had been “insensitive” to the victims of martial law tyranny.

Jalandoni, who now serves as a senior adviser for the NDFP peace panel, said the NDFP originally assumed that the burial would not be as important as the talks to push for social reforms, such as genuine land reform. But the portrayal of Marcos as a hero, and the growing street protests, had upset the NDF, he said in a talk he gave in Friday at the Baguio City Hall. CDG/rga

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