Bangkok: Has Ferdinand Marcos' family pulled a fast one on the Philippine public 30 years after a popular uprising forced the corrupt dictator, relatives and top cronies to flee the country?

Amid outrage over Marcos' burial at Manila's Heroes' Cemetery on Friday, lawmaker and lawyer Edcel Lagman has called for exhumation of the remains, saying be believes they are only the dictator's fake wax replica.

Imelda Marcos, in black on a wheelchair under an umbrella, widow of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, and their close relatives follow his flag-draped coffin to his burial at the Heroes' Cemetery on Friday. Credit:AP

"The clandestine burial of Marcos is in the malevolent mould of the Marcos' propensity for abuse, deception, deviousness and underhandedness," Mr Lagman told reporters, adding the burial "did not put the dictator to rest".

The Philippine Supreme Court approved Marcos' remains being moved to the country's Heroes' Cemetery earlier this month.