Philippines farewells former leader Ramos

By Jim Gomez
Updated August 9 2022 - 6:08pm, first published 6:03pm
Former Philippines president Fidel Ramos has been laid to rest in Manila. (AP PHOTO)
Former Philippines president Fidel Ramos has been laid to rest in Manila. (AP PHOTO)

Former Philippines President Fidel Ramos has been laid to rest in a state funeral, hailed as a former general who backed and then helped oust a dictatorship and became a defender of democracy and a can-do reformist in his poverty-wracked Asian country.

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