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A New Online Exhibit Showcases Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos’ Fabulous Jewels
Israeli Diamond Industry - BlogFerdinand and Imelda Marcos (Image: Al Ramones & Domie Quiazon)
The Republic of the Philippines is going above and beyond to raise public awareness to what they call “the two-decade plunder of the Marcoses during martial law”, according to the website of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG). The PCGG has recently launched an online exhibit of selected pieces of Hawaii jewelry collection, one of the three massive jewelry collections “hoarded” by Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos.
According to the PCGG, the collection was seized by the US Bureau of Customs upon the Marcoses’ arrival in Hawaii in 1986, and is now under the Commission’s custody.
The online exhibit, which can be viewed here, and features diamonds, gold and tiaras, is called “Virtual Jewelry Exhibit, A Story of Excesses: What could have fuelled a nation’s development”. It posts jewelry items to “show and remind the present generation of the excesses and extravagance of the Marcoses’ in their two-decade dictatorship”.
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