Amercian Genocide in the Philippines - Fil American War

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Philippines
July 8, 2018

Brits in the Philippines - The Filipino Genocide

                                          Bungo ng mga Pinoy na napatay ng kano

                                       Dapat ba lang pataying ng mga sundalong Amerikano
                                          ang mga rebolusyaryo na gulok at sibat ang sandata?
                                          May mga baril bang dala ang mga sundalong Filipino


Is very unlikely that this author will not get a  visa to travel to the US?   Well this post is simply a research of what has been written by Westerners themselves (Brits)

How many Filipinos were really killed in the Fil- American war?  A quarter of a million as mentioned in Wiki, or more than that.  Some writers placed this at 1.4 million. others at 3 million.  Even at 200,000+ this is still very high considering that Philippine population at that time was no more than 9 million (2.2%)

In the Peoples History of the US, death toll at Batangas alone was placed at 300,000 In William Pomeroys Neo Colonialism (1970) the number of Filipinos killed at at 600,000 in Luzon alone. This was confirmed by General Bell who cited the same figure.

E Ahmed claimed in his book, the Theories and Fallacies of Counter Insurgency,  The Nation, August 1971 estimates the number of dead at 3,000,000 and the bloodiest colonial war fought by white men in Asia.

And history is focused on German, Hitler atrocities in Europe, the holocaust. This is an American shame...And shame to the Filipino brown brothers and traitors.  And those who fought with Americans in WW I being claimed as heroes...What is this

Mark Twain wrote against this US atrocity.   A US soldier in NY mentioned that in a certain town in Titaia, as reprisal for the  killing of American soldiers, they  killed 1,000 men women and children in one night..

In the video, it is claimed that Americans killed more people than Germans did at Holocaust. True?

Filipino American War, the war that Americans want Filipinos to forget

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Rizal Philippines
July 8, 2018

From All thats interesting - Fil American war

                                         US soldeiers view bodies of fallen Filipino soldiers

                                                  Burning of Filipino Homes In Tondo Manila


The July 4 US Independence Day US Celebration (now the Fil Am friendship day) and the recent Trump trade war launched by US vs China reminds us of how powerful US is -   the big benevolent brother, the country that saved PHL from Spanish 400 colonial rule.

However, how easily many of us have forgotten the Fil Am war that claimed nearly a quarter million lives, well with atrocities being committed on both sides.   That is hardly the kind Americans whom Filipinos fought for in the Japanese war...Or those who nearly annihilated the residents of Balangiga.

Many termed this war as genocide and the first Vietnam for US outside of their country..

Yet we line up at US embassy to work for the land of milk and honey...And still wag our tails at the sight of them.... Let us think more independently and fell proud as Filipinos -  strong intelligent and resilient

We still have the US colonial mentality -  we love all things Americans, ape Americans, love Americans etc....

Hate for Japanese  atrocitiies, Spaniards persist but not vs Americans....

                                                  Dead Filipino soldiers after battle in Caloocan 1899

1.4 million Filipinos killed during the Fil Am war; True? Were this EJK? Or war crime?

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Rizal Philippines
September 11, 2016

                                        Balanggiga - a howling wilderness from American retaliation

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?