MANILA, PHILIPPINES // Masses of mourners yelled Corazon Aquino's name as her body was escorted through rain-soaked streets to Manila Cathedral today.
Tens of thousands of people left their offices, schools and homes to converge on streets, waving yellow balloons and ribbons as the late former president's flag-draped casket went by on a lorry bedecked with flowers.
Yellow became a symbol of the nonviolent mass uprising that forced Ferdinand Marcos from power in 1986.
Manila's notorious traffic came to a standstill as drivers rolled down windows and put out their hands flashing Mrs Aquino's trademark "L" sign for "laban," or "fight" in Filipino - her slogan in the campaign that toppled Mr Marcos' 20-year repressive rule.
Huge banners displayed "Thank You Corazon Aquino" and "You're Not Alone" - an Aquino slogan from the 1986 revolt.
The motorcade passed by a "people power" shrine on EDSA motorway, where hundreds of thousands of her supporters blocked Mr Marcos' tanks in 1986.
Along Ayala Avenue, where Mrs Aquino led many pro-democracy marches, employees from high rises rained yellow confetti on the crowds below.
"I have not seen a crowd like this," said Franklin Drilon, Mrs Aquino's former cabinet aide. "The people here are very enthusiastic, people in sandals, people in coat and tie, young and old with babies, they're coming out waving."
Instead of the usual stock figures, a street side neon screen at the Philippine Stock Exchange flashed Mrs Aquino's favourite nickname with her portrait and a message: "Goodbye Cory and Thank You So Much Cory."
The funeral convoy briefly stopped at a monument of Mrs Aquino's assassinated husband, Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr.
"I'm looking out the window now and I see women crying," said her daughter Kris Aquino.
"I really just appreciate the love. Everybody's saying thank you to us for sharing my mum."
Passing along palm tree-lined Manila Bay, her body will be moved to the Manila Cathedral to lie in state for public viewing until Wednesday's funeral.
Mrs Aquino died early on Saturday at a Manila hospital after a year-long battle with colon cancer. She was 76. The democracy icon rose to prominence after the 1983 assassination of her husband upon his return from US exile to challenge Mr Marcos.
*AP
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Eldarir had arrived at JFK in January 2020 with three suitcases, containing goods he valued at $300, when he was directed to a search area.
Officers found 41 gold artefacts among the bags, including amulets from a funerary set which prepared the deceased for the afterlife.
Also found was a cartouche of a Ptolemaic king on a relief that was originally part of a royal building or temple.
The largest single group of items found in Eldarir’s cases were 400 shabtis, or figurines.
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Khouli smuggled items into the US by making false declarations to customs about the country of origin and value of the items.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he provided “false provenances which stated that [two] Egyptian antiquities were part of a collection assembled by Khouli's father in Israel in the 1960s” when in fact “Khouli acquired the Egyptian antiquities from other dealers”.
He was sentenced to one year of probation, six months of home confinement and 200 hours of community service in 2012 after admitting buying and smuggling Egyptian antiquities, including coffins, funerary boats and limestone figures.
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A number of other items said to come from the collection of Ezeldeen Taha Eldarir are currently or recently for sale.
Their provenance is described in near identical terms as the British Museum shabti: bought from Salahaddin Sirmali, "authenticated and appraised" by Hossen Rashed, then imported to the US in 1948.
- An Egyptian Mummy mask dating from 700BC-30BC, is on offer for £11,807 ($15,275) online by a seller in Mexico
- A coffin lid dating back to 664BC-332BC was offered for sale by a Colorado-based art dealer, with a starting price of $65,000
- A shabti that was on sale through a Chicago-based coin dealer, dating from 1567BC-1085BC, is up for $1,950
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