'Not a hero': Hundreds protest burial plan for former Filipino dictator

Protesters display a banner with an anti-Marcos slogan during a demonstration at a park in Manila, Philippines on August 14, 2016, against plans to honor the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos with a state burial.

Hundreds crowded a park in the Philippines on Sunday to protest plans by President Rodrigo Duterte to bury former leader Ferdinand Marcos in the National Heroes' Cemetery. 

The demonstration in Manila was held to protest the decision to re-inter Marcos, the dictator who ruled the Philippines with an iron fist for two-and-a-half decades. His preserved body is currently in repose in his hometown of Ilocos in the north of the country.

Hundreds gathered in heavy rain to denounce Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's plans to move late dictator Ferdinand Marcos' remains from his northern hometown to the National Heroes' Cemetery in the capital, Manila, next month.

Organizers say that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) guidelines disqualify Marcos from receiving a hero's burial: citing a clause that states "personnel who were convicted by fine judgment of an offense involving moral turpitude," were disqualified, according to a statement released by the coalition.

 Hundreds gathered in heavy rain to denounce Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's plans to move late dictator Ferdinand Marcos' remains from his northern hometown to the National Heroes' Cemetery in the capital, Manila, next month.