Rizal Philippines
September 11, 2016
From Filipknow - Dark Chapters in Fil American history
Today marks the 15th year after the 9/11 attacks by the terrorists using 4 hijacked passenger airliners to attack Pentagon, Twin Towers at NYC, and Philadelphia, killing 3,000 Americans in their homeland, the first mass murder of such magnitude in the USA.
Today we recall too the recent spat between Pres DU30 and Obama resulting in the cancellation of their bilateral talks in Laos Asean Summit. The massacre at Mt Dajo of 600 combatants, children and women was recalled. That DU30 has violated and committed EJK is unfair for the Philippine President, and history. Really USA and its leader must be reminded too of what atrocities and EJK Americans had committed in the Philppines
We are reminded in the research of Luzviminda Francisco (Philippines: the end of an Illusion, London 1973) that 1.4 million Filipinos combatants and non combatants alike were killed from 1899 to 1902: It was the first Vietnam (the My Lai massacre) Compare this to the deaths during the Japanese occupation where 500,000 to 1,000,000 Filipinos died. Remember, 1941 to 1945 was modern warfare where there were more efficient weapons for killing. The Spaniards could have killed less during their 400 years of occupation of the Philippines and would be more benevolent
From Filipknow - Myths about the Spanish occupation of the Philippines
Genocide in the Philippines
I would consider the site having leftist or even NDF slant but its claims are well documented, and the first time I knew about this when my daughter who was studying in UP asked me to summarize for her a book on American atrocities in the country
A moment of reflection returns us to what Bernard Fall called “the first Vietnam,” the Filipino-American War of 1899-1902, in which at least 1.4 million Filipinos. The campaign to conquer the Philippines was designed in accordance with President McKinley’s policy of “Benevolent Assimilation” of the uncivilized and unchristian natives, a “civilizing mission” that Mark Twain considered worthy of the Puritan settlers and the pioneers in the proverbial “virgin land.” In Twain’s classic prose: “Thirty thousand killed a million. It seems a pity that the historian let that get out; it is really a most embarrassing circumstance.” This was a realization of the barbarism that Henry Adams feared before Admiral George Dewey entered Manila Bay on 1 May 1898: “I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year’s warfare in the Philippines where…we must slaughter a million or two of foolish Malays in order to give them the comforts of flannel petticoats and electric trailways.”
In “Benevolent Assimilation”: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903 (1982), Stuart Creighton Miller recounts the U.S. military’s “scorched earth” tactics in Samar and Batangas, atrocities from “search and destroy” missions reminiscent of Song My and My Lai in Vietnam. This episode in the glorious history of Empire is usually accorded a marginal footnote, or a token paragraph in school textbooks. Miller only mentions in passing the U.S. attempt to subjugate the unhispanized Moros, the Muslim Filipinos in Mindanao and Sulu islands. On March 9, 1906, four years after President Theodore Roosevelt declared the war over, children in the battle ofMajor General Leonard Wood, commanding five hundred and forty soldiers, killed a beleaguered group of six hundred Muslim men, women and and children at Mount Dajo. A less publicized but horrific battle occurred on June 13, 1913, when the Muslim sultanate of Sulu mobilized about 5,000 followers (men, women and children) against the American troops led by Capt. John Pershing. The battle of Mount Bagsak, 25 kilometers east of Jolo City, ended with the death of 340 Americans and of 2,000 (some say 3000) Moro defenders. Pershing was true to form—earlier he had left a path of destruction in Lanao, Samal Island, and other towns where local residents fought his incursions. Anyone who resisted U.S. aggression was either a “brigand” or seditious bandit. The carnage continued up to the “anti-brigandage” campaigns of the first three decades which suppressed numerous peasant revolts and workers’ strikes against the colonial state and its local agencies.
Not EJK or war crimes?
