Filipinos from university fraternity run naked to protest burial of dictator Marcos
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77528
Filipinos from university fraternity run naked to protest burial of dictator Marcos
- Title: Filipinos from university fraternity run naked to protest burial of dictator Marcos
- Date: 25th November 2016
- Summary: MANILA, PHILIPPINES (NOVEMBER 25, 2016) (REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS OF NAKED FRATERNITY MEN WALKING ALONG HALLWAY AS CROWD CHEERS NAKED FRATERNITY MEN POSING IN FRONT OF CROWD NAKED FRATERNITY MAN HOLDING PLACARD READING (English): "DICKS OUT FOR PEACE!" VARIOUS OF NAKED FRATERNITY MEN POSING WHILE HOLDING VARIOUS PLACARDS
- Embargoed: 10th December 2016 08:23
- Keywords: University of the Philippines fraternity naked run Ferdinand Marcos protest
- Location: MANILA, PHILIPPINES
- City: MANILA, PHILIPPINES
- Country: Philippines
- Topics: Society/Social Issues
- Reuters ID: LVA00159XYZB9
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS NUDITY
Dozens of men from a university fraternity in the Philippines took part in a naked run on Friday (November 25) to protest against the burial of a late dictator at the Heroes' Cemetery.
Ferdinand Marcos, a former dictator who ruled the Philippines for nearly two decades with an iron fist, was buried last Friday (November 18), drawing condemnation from left-wing groups and human rights activists attributing the former President of countless human rights violations and corruption.
Men from the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity ran naked while wearing masks and carried placards in the spirit of celebrating academic freedom.
"This run is a manifestation of our anger against what we see as the Marcoses trying to revise history, trying to revive their name because they've fallen from grace. Now that their patriarch has been buried in our national cemetery of heroes, we are angry that they are trying to ignore our painful history on human rights abuses under his term," said Toby Roca, spokesperson of the alpha Phi Omega fraternity.
The naked run is an annual event. Each year the fraternity highlights a particular cause.
The tradition started in the late 1970s, when members of the fraternity ran naked on the campus grounds in protest after Marcos banned a film criticizing his administration. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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