FERDINAND Marcos Jr. was sworn in as Philippine president Thursday, June 30, in one of the greatest political comebacks in recent history but which opponents say was pulled off by...
FERDINAND Marcos Jr. was sworn in as Philippine president Thursday, June 30, in one of the greatest political comebacks in recent history but which opponents say was pulled off by whitewashing his family’s image.
“Wow is this really happening?” asked Bonifacio Ilagan, a 70-year-old activist who was detained and severely tortured by counterinsurgency forces during the elder Marcos’s rule, before the inauguration. “For victims of martial law like me, this is a nightmare.” He also inherits decades-old Muslim and communist insurgencies, crime, gaping inequality and political divisions inflamed by his election.
Outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte presided over a brutal anti-drugs campaign that left thousands of mostly poor suspects dead in an unprecedented scale of killings the International Criminal Court was investigating as a possible crime against humanity. The probe was suspended in November, but the ICC chief prosecutor has asked that it be resumed immediately.
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