Where is marcos body

A wax mask covered the face of Marcos for the 23 years his corpse was on show. File photo: AFP. Critics say during 20 years in power he looted state coffers and ordered the torture and killing of thousands of foes.

In it was flown to the ancestral home in the northern Philippines, where it was put in a glass case for public viewing. Malabed said Marcos, who died from lung, kidney and liver complications aged 72, was disfigured by oedema - the build-up of fluid that causes tissues to become swollen. Embalming drains blood and other body fluid, which is replaced with preservative solution.

He said another mortuary handled the actual ceremony. As a child, Malabed dreamed of becoming an engineer, but he soon followed in the footsteps of his mortician father. By the time he was an year-old apprentice, Malabed was working on the mangled bodies of US soldiers killed in the Vietnam War, which had been flown to the then-US air base at Clark. Malabed got his first big break embalming a brother and a sister of Imelda, a job which opened doors to the Marcos family.

Under strict instructions from the family matriarch, Malabed preserved the body, but made no effort to fix the bullet-shattered face.

For Malabed, a devout Catholic, the identity of a person when they were alive is not important; he treats all his clients equally. Throngs of journalists waited outside the cemetery as a gun salute was fired and a Philippine flag was handed to Marcos' widow, Imelda.

Dozens of activists, human rights advocates and students, carrying placards and banners saying "Marcos is a traitor, Marcos not a hero" held protest rallies around Manila, some burning pictures of the late ruler. Police said Marcos's body was flown by helicopter from his hometown in the northern Philippines for burial at noon. Marcos's body was returned to the Philippines in the early s and was placed in a refrigerated mausoleum at his hometown in Paoay in Ilocos Norte province.

Image source, EPA. Officials and former officials accused of being involved in the drugs trade are being rounded up. Related Topics. Rodrigo Duterte Philippines. Published 22 May Published 30 September Published 30 June Published 17 February Through the years, tourists and loyalists alike have flocked to the museum to view the body of Marcos.

The embalmed body of Ferdinand Marcos is seen through a sealed glass coffin inside a dimly lighted mausoleum in his northern Philippine hometown on September 11, The placement of the late dictator's embalmed body in a transparent crypt, according to his family, is temporary and only until the government finally decides to allow his burial in the Heroes' Cemetery.

With the decision finally out, it is a matter of time before the Libingan ng mga Bayani becomes Marcos' final resting place.

Jodesz Gavilan is a writer and researcher for Rappler and its investigative arm, Newsbreak. She covers human rights and also hosts the weekly podcast Newsbreak: Beyond the Stories. She joined Rappler in after obtaining her journalism degree from the University of the Philippines. Jodesz Gavilan. Two rounds of oral arguments were heard by the High Court. Death in Hawaii. Arrival in Ilocos. Photo from AFP. Jodesz Gavilan jodeszgavilan Jodesz Gavilan is a writer and researcher for Rappler and its investigative arm, Newsbreak.