Philippine War / Filipino Genocide 1899 – 1902

The Extreme Leftist-Inspired Toppling of Statues Triggered An Unintended Reckoning Over Nation’s History, From the Native American Perspective

Sand Creek Massacre Nov. 29, 1864 that inspired the massacre scene in the movie “Soldier Blue” (1970) starring Candice Bergen and Peter Strauss.

Philippine War 1899-1902 was in fact the Filipino Genocide 1899-1902

The Filipino genocide 1899-1902 simply called the Philippine War 1899-1902 was America’s first Vietnam. In one estimate, some 34,000 Filipino soldiers died against only 4,000 American troops. However ESTIMATES for CIVILIAN DEATHS go from 1.2 MILLION to THREE (3) MILLION MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN and children who died of famine and disease mostly in concentration camps. In 1902 the estimated population of the Philippines was seven (7) million.

I have yet to read an official admission and apology for the genocide of Native Americans including those in the Philippines. 

Between January and April of 1902, there were 8,350 deaths out of 298,000. Some camps lost as many as 20% of the population. There was one camp that was two miles by one mile (3.2 by 1.6 km) in area. It was “home” to some 8,000 Filipinos. Men were rounded up for questioning, tortured and summarily executed.

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.”

Manila burns:  US soldiers firing at Filipinos, Feb. 23, 1899
Manila burns: US soldiers firing at Filipinos, Feb. 23, 1899

 

U.S. Army photo: "Insurgent dead just as they fell in the trench near Santa Ana, February 5th 1899. The trench was circular, and the picture shows but a small portion."
U.S. Army photo: “Insurgent dead just as they fell in the trench near Santa Ana, February 5th 1899. The trench was circular, and the picture shows but a small portion.”

 

Original caption: "Taking of Pasig --- In the distance to the left the city is seen, and in front the puffs of smoke from the insurgents' rifles, while half way down the open field the American line is returning the fire, being reenforced by others who are hurrying from the boat on the other side of the river. In the background are the reserve troops who have been protecting the advance."
Original caption: “Taking of Pasig — In the distance to the left the city is seen, and in front the puffs of smoke from the insurgents’ rifles, while half way down the open field the American line is returning the fire, being reenforced by others who are hurrying from the boat on the other side of the river. In the background are the reserve troops who have been protecting the advance.”

 

Philippine War 1899-1902 - Skirmish line of 1st Washington Volunteers at Pasig Mar. 1899
Philippine War 1899-1902 – Skirmish line of 1st Washington Volunteers at Pasig Mar. 1899

 

Philippine War 1899-1902 - Dead Filipino soldiers near Pasig River Mar. 1899
Philippine War 1899-1902 – Dead Filipino soldiers near Pasig River Mar. 1899

 

Philippine War 1899-1902 - Dead Filipino soldiers at Pasig.
Philippine War 1899-1902 – Dead Filipino soldiers at Pasig.

Americans discovered in the Philippines a form of torture what is now called “water boarding”.  Notice the U.S. military headgear, the Campaign Hat or the Sun Helmet is made of soft twill cotton. It was also in the Philippines that the U.S. military found the need for a helmet. A new weapon they have never seen before, the yo-yo was effective against the soft Campaign Hat or what we would now call a “bush hat.” Albert Gardner, in Troop B of the 1st U.S. Cavalry, composed a would-be comic song dedicated to “water-cure” torture, sung to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic:

1st Verse

Get the good old syringe boys and fill it to the brim

We’ve caught another nigger and we’ll operate on him

Let someone take the handle who can work it with a vim

Shouting the battle cry of freedom  

CHORUS

Hurrah Hurrah We bring the Jubilee

Hurrah Hurrah The flag that makes him free

Shove in the nozzel deep and let him taste of liberty

Shouting the battle cry of freedom”

US soldiers administering the "water cure" to a Filipino  "insurgent".  This cure was repeated until the prisoner talked or died. Roughly half the Filipinos given the cure did not survive. How many Filipinos were killed by torture is not known, but the extent of the practice is documented by a letter sent home by a soldier who bragged of inflicting the water cure on 160 Filipinos, 134 of whom died. A Harvard-educated officer, 1st Lt. Grover Flint, testified before the US Senate on the routine torture of Filipino combatants and civilians. He described the “water cure” as standard US Army torture.
US soldiers administering the “water cure” to a Filipino “insurgent”.                                This cure was repeated until the prisoner talked or died. Roughly half the Filipinos given the cure did not survive. How many Filipinos were killed by torture is not known, but the extent of the practice is documented by a letter sent home by a soldier who bragged of inflicting the water cure on 160 Filipinos, 134 of whom died. A Harvard-educated officer, 1st Lt. Grover Flint, testified before the US Senate on the routine torture of Filipino combatants and civilians. He described the “water cure” as standard US Army torture.

Original caption:  “Philippine Islands—A Harmless Method of Torture Alleged to Have Been Occasionally Used by Soldiers in the Philippines as one of the Necessary Accom- paniments of War.”   The men belonged to the 35th U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiment commanded by Col. Edward H. Plummer, West Point Class 1877. The regiment, which mainly operated in Bulacan Province, Luzon Island, arrived in the Philippines on Nov. 6, 1899 and departed on March 15, 1901.

(LEFT), US soldiers and a native collaborator applying the "water cure" to a Filipino  "insurgent".  (RIGHT), Life Cartoon: European colonial powers mock the US.
(LEFT), US soldiers and a native collaborator applying the “water cure” to a Filipino “insurgent”. (RIGHT), Life Cartoon: European colonial powers mock the US. Background chorus: “THOSE PIOUS YANKEES CAN’T THROW STONES AT US ANYMORE.” – 

 

US soldiers administering the "water cure" to a Filipino  "insurgent".  This cure was repeated until the prisoner talked or died. Roughly half the Filipinos given the cure did not survive. How many Filipinos were killed by torture is not known, but the extent of the practice is documented by a letter sent home by a soldier who bragged of inflicting the water cure on 160 Filipinos, 134 of whom died. A Harvard-educated officer, 1st Lt. Grover Flint, testified before the US Senate on the routine torture of Filipino combatants and civilians. He described the “water cure” as standard US Army torture.
US soldiers administering the “water cure” to a Filipino “insurgent”.
This cure was repeated until the prisoner talked or died. Roughly half the Filipinos given the cure did not survive. How many Filipinos were killed by torture is not known, but the extent of the practice is documented by a letter sent home by a soldier who bragged of inflicting the water cure on 160 Filipinos, 134 of whom died. A Harvard-educated officer, 1st Lt. Grover Flint, testified before the US Senate on the routine torture of Filipino combatants and civilians. He described the “water cure” as standard US Army torture.

 

American soldiers "water cure" a Filipino. Maj. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, military governor of the "unpacified areas" of the Philippines, 1901-1902,  ordered the US Army to "Obtain information from natives no matter what measures have to be adopted."
American soldiers “water cure” a Filipino. Maj. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, military governor of the “unpacified areas” of the Philippines, 1901-1902, ordered the US Army to “Obtain information from natives no matter what measures have to be adopted.”

One famous American who opposed the Philippine War was billionaire Andrew Carnegie

"I would gladly pay twenty million today to restore our republic to its first principles."-- - Andrew Carnegie, American Billionaire & Steel Magnate, explaining why he would buy the Philippines from the United States in order to give the islands their independence.
“I would gladly pay twenty million today to restore our republic to its first principles.”– – Andrew Carnegie, American Billionaire & Steel Magnate, explaining why he would buy the Philippines from the United States in order to give the islands their independence.

“The severity with which the inhabitants have been dealt would not look well if a complete history of it were written out”  –Governor-General of the Philippines, William Howard Taft

US Soldiers pose with Filipino Moro dead after the First Battle of Bud Dajo, March 7, 1906, Jolo, Philippines.US Soldiers pose with dead Filipino men women & children victims of the Bud Dajo Massacre, March 7, 1906, Jolo, Philippines.

Earlier on Dec. 29, 1890, it was the Massacre of Lakotas at Wounded Knee where 84 men 44 women and 18 children were killed with  51 wounded (7 fatally).U.S. soldiers pose for a picture near a mass grave of dead Lakotas following the Wounded Knee Massacre of December 29, 1890Above: U.S. soldiers pose for a picture near a mass grave of dead Lakotas following the Massacre at Wounded Knee on December 29, 1890.

Original caption:  "Gov'mt. issuing rice to poor people in Bauan during the concentration." Photo was taken in 1901 at Bauan, Batangas Province. The town was garrisoned by Troop K of the 1st US Cavalry Regiment.
Original caption: “Gov’mt. issuing rice to poor people in Bauan during the concentration.” Photo was taken in 1901 at Bauan, Batangas Province. The town was garrisoned by Troop K of the 1st US Cavalry Regiment.

 

A concentration camp in Tanauan, Batangas
A concentration camp in Tanauan, Batangas

General Bell insisted that he built these camps to “protect friendly natives from the insurgents, assure them an adequate food supply” while teaching them “proper sanitary standards.” The commandant of one of the camps referred to them as the “suburbs of Hell.” Starvation and disease took the lives of thousands. Between January and April of 1902, there were 8,350 deaths out of 298,000. Some camps lost as many as 20% of the population. There was one camp that was two miles by one mile (3.2 by 1.6 km) in area. It was “home” to some 8,000 Filipinos. Men were rounded up for questioning, tortured and summarily executed.

A roundup of Filipino civilians.
A roundup of Filipino civilians.

Above: 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.”

American soldiers hang two Filipinos. (LEFT) The prisoners are forced up on the scaffold at gunpoint; (RIGHT) The nooses are adjusted and the Filipinos' hands are tied behind their backs.  Undated photo, location not specified.
American soldiers hang two Filipinos. (LEFT) The prisoners are forced up on the scaffold at gunpoint; (RIGHT) The nooses are adjusted and the Filipinos’ hands are tied behind their backs. Undated photo, location not specified.

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.”

Filipino POWs in Nasugbu, Batangas Province When an American was "murdered" in Batangas,  Bell ordered his men to "by lot select a POW--preferably one from the village in which the assassination took place--and execute him."
Filipino POWs in Nasugbu, Batangas Province
When an American was “murdered” in Batangas, Bell ordered his men to “by lot select a POW–preferably one from the village in which the assassination took place–and execute him.”

 

He also rounded up the wealthy and influential residents of Batangas (ABOVE). They were packed like sardines in small rooms, measuring 15-by-30-by-6 feet, into which up to 50 of them were crammed for months. They were pressed into work gangs to burn their own homes, until they agreed to aid American forces.
He also rounded up the wealthy and influential residents of Batangas (ABOVE). They were packed like sardines in small rooms, measuring 15-by-30-by-6 feet, into which up to 50 of them were crammed for months. They were pressed into work gangs to burn their own homes, until they agreed to aid American forces.

 

Female prisoners in Batangas
Female prisoners in Batangas

Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell said, "It is an inevitable consequence of war that the innocent must generally suffer with the guilty".  He reasoned that since all natives were treacherous, it was impossible to recognize "the actively bad from only the passively so." Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell said, “It is an inevitable consequence of war that the innocent must generally suffer with the guilty”.  He reasoned that since all natives were treacherous, it was impossible to recognize “the actively bad from only the passively so.” Some estimates of civilian deaths on Luzon are as high as 100,000. Many of Malvar’s officers and men gave up and collaborated with the Americans. Malvar realized that continuing the war would harm the people more.

Filipino POWs in Batangas Province. A report in the Army and Navy Journal  told of 600 Filipinos penned in a building 70-by-20 feet, suffocating, starving, dying of dysentery and thirst in the brutal tropical sun.
Filipino POWs in Batangas Province. A report in the Army and Navy Journal told of 600 Filipinos penned in a building 70-by-20 feet, suffocating, starving, dying of dysentery and thirst in the brutal tropical sun.

 On April 16, 1902, Malvar and his entire command surrendered to the Americans, who treated him honorably. General Bell reported that during the campaign against Malvar, US forces secured 3,561 guns and 625 revolvers, captured, or forced to surrender some eight or ten thousand “insurgents”.  Malvar’s surrender marked the end of organized resistance in the Philippines against American occupation.  To deal with other rebels and insurrectionists, the Philippine Commission passed the Brigandage Act of 1902 which interpreted all acts of armed resistance to American rule as banditry. 

Three "Ladrones" (bandits) are about to be hanged in Tayabas Province (now Quezon). The Brigandage Act of 1902 passed on November 12, 1902 interpreted all acts of armed resistance to American rule as banditry. PHOTO was taken in the early 1900s.
Three “Ladrones” (bandits) are about to be hanged in Tayabas Province (now Quezon). The Brigandage Act of 1902 passed on November 12, 1902 interpreted all acts of armed resistance to American rule as banditry. PHOTO was taken in the early 1900s.

My great grandfather Nicolas Aldana, a husband to a landowner was executed on Dec. 12, 1901 eleven months prior to the enactment of the Brigandage Act of 1902. It should be noted that during the Spanish Regime and before the Americans came, only full-blooded Spaniards were allowed to own land in the Philippines. Mestizos or half-Spanish and usually half-Chinese could only lease the lands from the Dominican Order.

The severity with which the inhabitants have been dealt would not look well if a complete history of it were written out”  –Governor-General of the Philippines, William Howard Taft
“The severity with which the inhabitants have been dealt would not look well if a complete history of it were written out” –Governor-General of the Philippines, William Howard Taft

Poverty & Prostitution in the Philippines

 October 31, 2014 

Happy Halloween !!!

Let me start by saying that had the Philippine oligarchy along with Aquino III and his group, their families, friends, relatives, cronies left my people & ancestral land alone and instead have established a country and government on their respective ancestral land say, Hacienda Luisita or China, what he does or fail to do would have been none of my business.

But since the ruling class insists that Aquino III is the president of the entire Philippine archipelago a former U.S. territory, I have to be involved, do my civic duty; point out what’s wrong and assert my ancestral rights.

Solution: Urge the U.S. Senate to rescind the 1946 Treaty of Manila that prematurely & irresponsibly granted independence to the Philippines and stripped us of our U.S. nationality.

 

Why is prostitution rampant in the Philippines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8gu3u0Zw8o 

Alleged Underage prostitution in the Philippines – ABC News – Nightline feature

Part 1: “Nightline” goes undercover to investigate Americans accused of selling young women for sex.

Published on Feb 25, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhj5nTtVRro

This “Nightline” episode accompanied U.S. law enforcement agents in a raid on a prostitution den front peddling underage girls some as young as 14 years old. In the same way that all Americans must pay income tax regardless of where they are or where they’ve earned it, the operator of the club called “Crow Bar”, Arthur Benjamin is an American ex-pat from Texas and therefore liable of violating U.S. laws on prostitution and sex with underage girls which is illegal in Texas. I wonder if he’s from Nevada, I’m sure they will ask for his permit to operate cat house.

Well and good the U.S. & Philippine law enforcement agents conducted the raid and arrested Arthur Benjamin. They believe they’ve rescued the girls. After getting probably probation or go to juvenile hall, if there’s any and the operation is shut down, where will these girls go? Who will support them and those they support?

This is what I mean when I said the U.S. doesn’t stay long enough to make a lasting difference. They just satisfied the requirements of the U.S. law and forgot about the whole picture.

Jesus Christ! Why not ask the U.S. Senate to rescind the 1946 Treaty of Manila, take over the whole damn place and make it the U.S. territory meant to provide the natural and human resources Japan need even today?  Those who prefer to live segregated from non-native Filipinos could do so and we’ll call it segregated by choice.  But it is obvious Filipinos are not, repeat not ready for self-rule.

It’s common knowledge that Gen. Douglas MacArthur was responsible for creating the only genuine economic miracle of 20th century – post WWII Japan.  Did MacArthur forget about the Philippines? I doubt it. The oligarchs decided to go on their own and shun MacArthur. Whatever Japan lacked in natural resources, there’s plenty of them in the Philippines. Japan and the Philippines is the perfect combination. If we missed developing the Philippines with Japan in the 20th century we could do it in the 21st century. 

 Other links that might be of interest to you:

Prostitution in the Philippines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_Philippines

Towards the end it discusses what role the Roman Catholic’s attitude towards sex education & birth control (not abortion), play in the staggering number of teenage moms who end up having little or no better alternative but to jump in the flesh trade.

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Auschwitz 1944? No! Manila, Philippines 2014, A Gov’t-run Social Services Center, 12 Oct. 2014

October 28, 2014 

From:  Girl’s (Marianneth Amper’s) suicide indicts Philippine anti-poverty programme

The World Bank, IMF and the U.N. will continue to aid and abet oppression and the undemocratic oligarchy in the Philippines.  But we will all be judged by history. Facebook is the best thing that ever happened to civilization. We can no longer deny what is happening in the Philippines. 

In Dec. 2007, the World Bank went ahead forgiving $16.5~ Billion debts of the poorest nations in Africa. (See Zero Sum Game of Global Finance Yet today there is still hunger and starvation in Africa. But it’s different now. It’s worse. We have Ebola virus that infected at least two health care workers in Dallas, TX. 

Record Funding for World’s Poorest Countries as of 12-14-07

December 14, 2007

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21587453~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html

The record donor pledges for IDA15 represent a 42 percent increase from the previous replenishment.   This is complemented by US$ 16.5 billion~ in internal financing from the World Bank Group and prior donor pledges for financing debt forgiveness.

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“A child committing suicide because of hunger and poverty may be an isolated case, but Filipino families experiencing extreme hunger and poverty are definitely prevalent.“

“We have already seen and heard news of adults committing suicide in desperation borne out of poverty by jumping from billboards or hanging themselves,” Alphonse Rivera, head of the child rights organization, Salinlahi Alliance for Children’s Concerns, said in a statement sent to the Mindanao Examiner.

Oct. 20, 2014 – Seventieth Anniversary of MacArthur’s Leyte Landing in WWII

“If you think this is bad enough, add the recent revelations in Bayanko, like the event in Malolos Provincial Hospital where cats have infested the hospital and eating the carcass of a dead newly born baby. Then add how they feed the patients by getting the carers to pile in a line to collect the food and if you are at the back you do not get any food at all.

Do you know patients die in bulk in these hospitals and with no post mortems, as no one cares, no one knows what causes their death. It could be Ebola, TB, HIV, it can be anything and there is no safeguard because it is the hospital for the poor.

Now the statistic shows that 12.1 million families consider themselves poor –SWS Q3 poll and 40% of workers live in illegal settlements. So what are we doing my Kababayans. We celebrate EDSA 1 for what? To lower the standard of living to this level and just allow this irresponsible government to continue this way.” 

Solution: Urge the U.S. Senate to rescind the 1946 Treaty of Manila that prematurely & irresponsibly granted independence to the Philippines and stripped us of our U.S. nationality.  The Philippines was NEVER a colony. It is a U.S. territory just like Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the American Samoa. Be it in 1934 with the Philippine Commonwealth Law or the 1946 Republic there never was any referendum asking the Natives if they wanted to be stripped of U.S. Nationality.
Solution: Urge the U.S. Senate to rescind the 1946 Treaty of Manila that prematurely & irresponsibly granted independence to the Philippines and stripped us of our U.S. nationality.
The Philippines was NEVER a colony. It is a U.S. territory just like Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the American Samoa. Be it in 1934 with the Philippine Commonwealth Law or the 1946 Republic there never was any referendum asking the Natives if they wanted to be stripped of U.S. Nationality.

From: https://www.facebook.com/101865529950778/photos/a.244749535662376.60562.101865529950778/522795844524409/?type=1&fref=nf