President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. offered a “hand of reconciliation” to his critics and opponents on Saturday as the country marked the 37th anniversary of the Edsa People Power Revolution that toppled his late father’s dictatorship.
Groups that fought against his father’s martial rule quickly responded, saying that his statement must come with truth and genuine atonement for the atrocities and the plunder of the nation’s coffers when his family was in power.
Liberal Party president and Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman welcomed the president’s statement but said there should be an admission of the horrors committed during his father’s iron rule. “There will be no reconciliation as long as the Marcos family continues to deny their crimes and refuse to apologize; distort history and spread false versions; fail to pay taxes correctly and hold on to remaining ill-gotten wealth,” Manuel said.
“If I had hurt anyone, I will always say sorry, but what I’ve been guilty of to apologize about?” he said.Marcos added that “if during that time of my father there were those who were hit or not given assistance, or they were victimized in some way or another, of course we’re sorry that that happened. Nobody wants that to have happened.”
After the official ceremonies, various groups led by the Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses and Martial Law and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan held their own commemoration program. Nearly four decades on from the toppling of the dictator, Julio Montinola, 53, told French news agency Agence France-Presse that the challenge was to keep the “message and spirit” of the uprising alive.
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