Hundreds of naked protesters take to streets over their government decision to honorably bury former dictator Ferdinand Marcos in Heroes' Cemetery

Dozens of men from a university fraternity in the Philippines took part in a naked run 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 a week ago, drawing condemnation from left-wing groups and human rights activists attributing the former President of countless human rights violations and corruption. 

Toby Roca, spokesperson of the fraternity, said: 'He don't deserve to given Honorable burial, 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.”

 

Men from the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity ran naked while wearing masks and carried placards in the spirit of celebrating academic freedom.

 

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.”

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 criticising his administration.