In the Philippines, the Supreme Court has ruled 9 to 5 that former dictator Ferdinand Marcos will receive a “hero’s burial,” despite a three-decade struggle to stop the dictator’s remains from being reburied in Manila’s Heroes’ Cemetery. This is Neri Colmenares, who survived the period of Marcos’s rule under martial law from 1972 to 1981.

Neri Colmenares: “It’s really disheartening that today, history has changed, history has lost its meaning. And it’s confusing and frustrating that after so many decisions against Marcos, the Supreme Court turned itself around. But we will seek a motion of reconsideration.”