Philippine War 1899-1902: Philippine Genocide

Below is one of the many atrocities American soldiers carried out during the Philippine War 1899-1902. To counter the guerilla warfare Aguinaldo’s followers were conducting, concentration camps were established.

A ROUNDUP OF FILIPINO CIVILIANS. Undated photo and location not specified. A correspondent to the Philadelphia Ledger wrote, “Our soldiers…have taken prisoner people who held up their hands and peacefully surrendered, and an hour later, without an atom of evidence to show that they were even insurrectos, stood them on a bridge and shot them down one by one, to drop into the water below and float down as an example to those who found their bullet riddled corpses.”

Reverend W. H. Walker received a letter from his son and showed it to the Boston Journal, which reported about it on May 5, 1902. The letter described how 1,300 prisoners were executed over a few weeks.

A Filipino priest heard their confessions for several days and then he was hanged in front of them. Twenty prisoners at a time were made to dig their mass graves and then were shot.

The young Walker wrote, “To keep them prisoners would necessitate the placing of the soldiers on short rations if not starving them. There was nothing to do but kill them.”

A concentration camp in Tanuan, Batangas, Philippines during the Philippine War (1899-1902)

Sand Creek Massacre v. Philippine Genocide 1899-1902 – Massacre of 1,300 Filipinos

June 28, 2020 – HAPPY BIRTHDAY DRAKE! – It would be better to have the participation of Pres. Duterte in the establishment of the government-in-exile for the Freely Associated State for the Philippines based in London, U.K. as part of the transition. The republic of the Philippines founded on lies, treason and dishonor should be dissolved on or before June 30, 2022. Pres. Duterte who should be the last president of that fraudulent republic, has rightly gone after the oligarchs in a way no other Filipino president has done before. Just as an independent and sovereign Philippines was US Army Brig. Gen. Manuel Roxas’ the escape route for collaborating with the Japanese, Pres. Duterte and his qualified followers should be given immunity from suit after he steps down from office provided Pres. Duterte will support the transition of the Philippines to a Freely Associated State.

Let us compare the Sand Creek Massacre on Nov. 29-30, 1864 and the summary execution of 1,300 Filipino prisoners as told by Reverend Walker’s son in letter later published in Boston Journal on May 5, 1902. The Americans introduced summary execution to the Philippines or what they now call “Extrajudicial Killing” (EJK).

It was the Americans who gave the idea of disregarding due process. Pres. Duterte could use these precedents in his defense. Two years from now on June 30, 2022, Pres. Duterte will step down from office and most likely criminal cases will be filed against him and his people for the numerous extrajudicial killings (EJK’s) some of which Duterte himself took responsibility. He’s the only Filipino President who in a speech called oligarchs Ayala and Pangilinan who owns the Water & Sewage systems, “pseudo-Filipinos WITHOUT SOULS” (halos Pilipino na walang kaluluwa) and “You are all ANIMALS!” (Walang water treatment mga animal kayo!”)^ Duterte shutdown the Lopezes’ ABS-CBN in 2020, after he singled out Ongpin early in his administration.

**^At 12:08 – Yung water treatment they have been collecting for years to treat water before it flows to Manila Bay. MATAGAL NA YAN ANAK KA NG P*TANG INA NYA!** WALANG WATER TREATMENT MGA ANIMAL KAYO! Magusap tayo ng . . . Pag hindi, tag-isang SAMPAL kayo sa akin. Maniwala kayo. Patikim ko sa inyo. PAKITA KO SA PILIPINO PAANO MAGSAMPAL NG MGA MILYONARYO, BILYONARYO. Litse kayo.* Unahan ninyo ako. Patayin nyo ako. O ptang ina papatayin ko kayo. Sigurado yan. Inano nyo ang Pilipino, eh. Biro mo tubig nya. . . .” (“Damn you. Go ahead! Kill me! Son of a btch I will kill you all*. I assure you. You cheated the Filipino people with their own water . . .”)

Excerpt:

At 11:30 – *You know Ayala, they do not pay . . . Hanapin mo nga si Ayala kung saan. Puntahan ko. They do not pay corporate income tax.*

At 12:08 – *Yung water treatment they have been collecting for years to treat water before it flows to Manila Bay. MATAGAL NA YAN ANAK KA NG P*TANG INA NYA!*

*WALANG WATER TREATMENT MGA ANIMAL KAYO! Magusap tayo ng . . . Pag hindi, tag-isang SAMPAL kayo sa akin. Maniwala kayo. Patikim ko sa inyo. PAKITA KO SA PILIPINO PAANO MAGSAMPAL NG MGA MILYONARYO, BILYONARYO. Litse kayo.* *Unahan ninyo ako. Patayin nyo ako. O p*tang ina papatayin ko kayo. Sigurado yan. Inano nyo ang Pilipino, eh. Biro mo tubig nya. . . .* (“Damn you. Go ahead! Kill me! Son of a b*tch I will kill you all. I assure you. You cheated the Filipino people with their own water . . .”)

At 13:29 – *Kung Pilipino ka, papayag ka ng ganun? *You think you can really afford to bargain away the dignity of the your country.* *At saka yang ating tubig, ating tubig, nilalagay nila not as a natural resource but as a commodity. Papaano yan.*

14:00 – *Tubig kailangan ng tao. It’s it’s. Lahat ng ano. Yun ang tinitira nila. Electric, tapos itong tubig. It’s in the hands of the oligarchs who are a bunch of a son of a b*tch.*

*ABS-CBN took Duterte’s P2 million payment for his campaign ad that was never aired, just like all other candidates.*

15:19 – And you want us to bow down to your wealth and money and influence, well not with this administration. I AM FOR THE PEOPLE AND I WILL KILL FOR THE PEOPLE.

^Ceremonial Signing of the Postponement of the 2020 Barangay & SK Elections Act (Speech) Dec. 3, 2019

*at 05:26 – Ang problema ibinigay natin sa mga torpeng hindi nga Pilipino halos o Pilipino na WALANG KALULUWA! Yang Manila Water pati Maynilad kay Pangilinan pati kay Ayala. [The problem is we gave it to some stupid who are not really Filipinos or Filipinos WITHOUT SOULS! That Manila Water and Maynilad belong to Pangilinan and Ayala.

at 16:06 – “I’m telling Sarah, now again, for the umpteen time. Do not run. The reason, maawa ako sa ‘yo. Except for your love of your country, wala kang makuha dito sa pagiging presidente unless you go corrupt.* (You’ll get nothing from being a president unless you go corrupt.)Pero ko tinarong ka. ano ba sa Tagalog ang tinarong? Kung matino ka, wala kang makuha dito. Tapoy lang. Endless travel.“ (Duterte is speaking Bisaya. I don’t know his language.)

In this speech by PRRD where he is discouraging Sara to run for president.

16:06 – “I’m telling Sarah, now again, for the umpteen time. Do not run. The reason, maawa ako sa ‘yo. Except for your love of your country, wala kang makuha dito sa pagiging presidente unless you go corrupt.

Pero ko tinarong ka. ano ba sa Tagalog ang tinarong? Kung matino ka, wala kang makuha dito. Tapoy lang. Endless travel “

At 05:18 – Ganito yan. Ang tubig atin. Maraming tubig: Here’s the story: The water is ours.

05:26 – Ang problema ibinigay natin sa mga torpeng hindi nga Pilipino halos o Pilipino na WALANG KALULUWA! Yang Manila Water pati Maynilad kay Pangilinan pati kay Ayala.

[The problem is we gave it to some stupid who are not really Filipinos or Filipinos WITHOUT SOULS!

It’s Manila Water (Ayala Family owned) also Maynilad (owned by Pangilinan) They belong to Pangilinan and Ayala]

06:00 – Walang nagsasalita. But when I saw the contract, sabi ko “P***ng Ina ‘to”. They are screwing us and they are screwing us all the way.

08:33 – Ang sabi ko ang corruption sa pinakamalaki, billions nandito sa itaas. Tax exemption, itong si Ongpin. Lahat yan sila. Yung mga crony noon Yung mga crony ngayon, anak ka ng p*ta ina nyo!

*RTV – Oath-taking of the Newly Appointed Officials (Speech) •Dec 3, 2019

This is why I am inviting Pres. Duterte or his daughter Sara Duterte to join in the formation of the government-in-exile for a Freely Associated State of the Philippines based in London, U.K. as soon as possible. We shall seek the dissolution of the so-called republic of the Philippines founded on lies, treason and dishonor in 1946. We will campaign for the withdrawal of recognition of the Philippine republic immediately with a warning: Since 1946, the international community has been funding, aiding, abetting and profiting from the obviously failed state that is the Philippines, an abandoned U.S. territory.

The 1946 Treaty of Manila

Like the Commonwealth Act of 1934 or Philippine Independence Act of 1934, the Filipino people were never asked if we wanted to secede from the U.S. in 1946. And yet in the Pledge of Allegiance, Americans swear:

” . . . one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”

On Nov. 6, 2012, a referendum was held in Puerto Rico, and only a tiny 5.6 percent of Puerto Ricans voted for independence.

On Sept. 18, 2014 a referendum was held in Scotland to determine if Scotland should be independent. The Scottish people voted no to independence

All these referenda should remind Americans and Filipinos that there was no referendum held when known Japanese collaborator Manuel A. Roxas sought independence for the oil, gas and mineral rich, Philippines, then a U.S. Territory. The US Senate prematurely, irresponsibly and unconstitutionally granted the Philippines dependent-independence when the Treaty of Manila was ratified of Manila on 22 October 1946.

The Volstead Act was repealed. The Takata air bags were recalled but the 1946 Treaty of Manila has not been rescinded.

On Dec. 21, 2015 when Steve Harvey realized his mistake in announcing Miss Colombia as the winner instead of Miss Philippines, he immediately corrected his mistake. Comedians are better than American politicians.

The U.S. Senate to this day continues to fund, aid and abet oppression, treason and corruption in the former U.S. territory using American taxpayers’ money through the World Bank.

Anyone on this planet who still believes countries like the former U.S. territory, the Philippines, is ready for independence and self-rule:

a.) Should have his or her head examined, starting with the U.S. Senate.

b.) Should live in the Philippines and experience first-hand the hell on earth.

c.) Must have ulterior motives.

Here is the Treaty of Manila that granted dependent-independence to the Philippines, a U.S. territory and created the hell on earth. We were handed over to oligarch-traitors who wanted to escape justice for collaborating with the Japanese during WWII.

“The Treaty of Manila of 1946 (61 Stat. 1174, TIAS 1568, 7 UNTS 3), formally the Treaty of general relations and Protocol,[1] is a treaty of general relations signed on 4 July 1946 in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.

The United States GRANTED the PHILIPPINES INDEPENDENCE, and the treaty provided for the recognition of that independence. The treaty was signed by Ambassador Paul V. McNutt as a representative of the United States and President Manuel Roxas representing the Philippines.

The treaty became effective in the United States on 22 October 1946, when it was ratified by the Senate (79th Congress).”

The 1946 Treaty of Manila
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Manila_(1946)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UX660r0CNE

PRES. CORAZON C. AQUINO TOLD U.S. TROOPS TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY – Congressional Quarterly 1991

PRES. CORAZON C. AQUINO TOLD U.S. TROOPS TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY

U.S. Military Told To Leave Philippines

An article from CQ Almanac 1991

http://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal91-1111026

Document Outline

Volcano Mired Deal

Strategic Considerations

A series of international and domestic events — ranging from a natural disaster to the breakup of the Soviet Union — turned 1991 into a turning point for relations between the United States and the Philippines. The culmination came Dec. 27, when the government of President Corazon C. Aquino told U.S. troops to leave the country.

Document Citation
“U.S. Military Told To Leave Philippines.” In CQ Almanac 1991, 47th ed., 433-34. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1992.

The decision signaled the end of the vast U.S. military presence in the area, a presence that dated back to 1898 when control of the islands was wrested from the Spahish. The Philippines gained independence from the United States in 1946, although the bases continued to play a principal role for U.S. armed forces in the Pacific theater for decades afterward.

In negotiations with the United States throughout 1991, Philippine officials insisted on $825 million in annual U.S. compensation — half in cash and half in trade and other concessions — in return for a seven-year agreement to continue operation of the military bases. U.S. negotiators said they wanted a 10-year pact tied to $360 million in annual aid.

The talks were disrupted by a volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in early June that nearly destroyed Clark Air Base and damaged the Subic Bay Naval Station. But negotiators finally settled on treaty language that would have provided a 10-year lease for the Subic Bay naval base and $203 million in annual aid for the duration. The operating lease for the naval base expired in September 1991.

But lawmakers in both countries were unhappy with the agreement.

A powerful contingent of Philippine nationalists argued against the base treaty, saying that the presence of the U.S. military amounted to a colonial dominance and an intrusion on Philippine sovereignty. On Sept. 16, the 23-member Philippine Senate voted to reject the base treaty.

U.S. lawmakers, meanwhile, were frustrated by the persistent requests from the Philippines for infusions of aid, especially as a prerequisite for continued U.S. military presence there.

Members of Congress were questioning the strategic importance of the military bases, given the diminished Cold War atmosphere that was accompanying the breakup of the Soviet Union.

There was also reluctance to pay the Philippines billions of dollars to keep open bases overseas when declining defense budgets were forcing the closing of domestic bases in congressional districts across the country. (Base closings, p. 427)

“This has the Filipinos competing in the U.S. Congress with the Alabama National Guard,” said Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa. “Everyone in Congress is sympathetic to

the Philippines. On the other hand when the tough choices have to be made, the handwriting is on the wall.”

Other lawmakers, such as House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., said the Philippine rejection of the treaty could free money that could be redirected as foreign aid in places such as the former Soviet republics.

“Countries are lined up for the money that might be available,” said Sen. Richard G. Lugar, R-Ind., a member of the Foreign Relations Committee.

Volcano Mired Deal

The volcanic eruption in early June of the Philippines’ Mount Pinatubo, located 10 miles west of Clark Air Base and approximately 25 miles north of the Subic Bay naval base, dumped billions of tons of ash throughout the surrounding areas. The disaster forced the evacuation and subsequent closing of the Clark base and the curtailment of operations at Subic Bay.

Following the eruption, about 18,000 U.S. citizens were evacuated from the bases, which also employed more than 70,000 Filipinos. Many more islanders were uprooted from their homes as the volcano smothered large swaths of land with deep heavy ash.

Members of Congress who had been skeptical about the need to retain the bases and frustrated by Philippine resistance to the treaty were even more doubtful that the cost of repairing the bases would be worthwhile. U.S. officials in the Philippines were reported to have estimated that Clark’s repair bill would have approached $300 million and possibly more.

The future of the bases had been further clouded by geological reports that indicated that the volcano might remain intermittently active for as long as 25 years, potentially disrupting any costly repair of the two remaining U.S. bases. Four other bases had been returned to Philippine control during the year.

“What’s the point of spending a fortune to put it all back together, if it’s all going to come apart again?” asked Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., the chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities, and an outspoken critic of U.S. military spending abroad.

Strategic Considerations

While the volcano sealed the fate of the Clark base, U.S. lawmakers and the Bush administration were careful to clarify that they wanted to maintain a strategic relationship with the Philippines, and especially to continue to lease the base at Subic Bay. Abandonment of the bases was not the expressed desire of the administration, either before or immediately following the eruption of Mount Pinatubo.

“All things being equal, we would very much like to stay at both Clark and Subic,” Pete Williams, the spokesman for the Pentagon, had said on June 25.

But others held different views. A number of experts, including a handful in the Pentagon, had professed the view even prior to the volcano that operations performed at Clark and Subic Bay could be undertaken elsewhere, such as in Guam, Okinawa, Singapore and Hawaii, and that such a move would make sense, given the undercurrent of resentment of the U.S. presence in the Philippines.

Most agreed, however, that the massive, 60,000-acre Subic Bay facility held a unique and highly valued position with the U.S. Navy, providing it a deepwater port in a strategic location that could accommodate almost every maintenance, repair and supply need of the Pacific fleet.

According to a published report, U.S. officials tried to salvage the Subic Bay lease late in the year by proposing a three-year phased withdrawal from the Philippines, in the hope that the lease agreement might be revived and extended following election of a new Philippine government the following year. But that attempt also foundered, apparently over U.S. reluctance to agree to a firm schedule for removal of troops and equipment under Philippine direction.

Philippine President Aquino, who had strongly supported renewal of the lease agreement, also floated a proposal that a national referendum be held to save the bases. But in the face of widespread political opposition she backed away from

that proposal and later expressed more interest in the U.S. plan for a phased withdrawal.

When all efforts failed, Aquino ordered U.S. troops out of the naval port by the end of 1992.

Defense Department officials had told Congress earlier that if the base were closed, the United States would not seek a new naval base in Asia.

“New bases are neither fiscally feasible nor in keeping with the security relationships we have with our friends in the region,” Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Carl W. Ford Jr. told the House Foreign Affairs Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee on Sept. 25. “Functions and missions would be dispersed among existing facilities in the region and in the U.S.”

Document Citation
“U.S. Military Told To Leave Philippines.” In CQ Almanac 1991, 47th ed., 433-34. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1992. http://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/cqal91-1111026 .

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