Manila theatre
Sir,—Your report on the 30 workers killed constructing a theatre in Manila highlighted once again the vicious regime of Imelda Marcos and her husband — people killed in a rush to finish another building to impress the West. The imported white sand beach that goes with it backs on to the largest slum in the world. She viciously exploits her people, and readers should know that on the other side of the beautiful theatre are 3 million people in a terrible slum, without hope. The beach just along from the white sand is a mass of garbage and human waste, and the cardboard and tin huts of the oppressed. I watched her open the Imelda Marcos Auditorium and then went half a mile to sit in a slum hut and talk with people imprisoned and tortured without trial. —
Yours, etc., GEORGE SWEET. November 20. 1981.
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Press, 23 November 1981, Page 16
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