Showing posts with label PH HISTORY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PH HISTORY. Show all posts

Friday, July 7, 2017

Biblical, Magellan's, remains uncovered and today's giants: Kahit pa si Duterte nakunang may higanteng kasama

Wala naman talagang katakataka sa pagkakaroon ng mga higante kahit pa sa panahon ngayon. Noong bumisita si President Rodrigo Duterte sa China ay ipinakilala pa ngani sa kanya ang isa at kasama niya sa dinner.

Si Duterte sa China may higante ngang nakasama. Gataka ka pa?
Aling foreign media ang pumansin dito? Waley! Baka kasi mahalukay pa ang tungkol sa marami pang higante sa ibat-ibang kultura sa ibat-ibang panig ng mundo at baka kung saan dumating ang usapan. Baka madiskubre pa tuloy ang mga kalansay ng mga higante sa ilang kuweba ng Marinduque!

Bakit ayaw nilang pag-usapan? E kasi taliwas ito sa theory of evolution ni Darwin na pinauso ng mga satanistang puti para ilihis at ihugas-utak ang mga pandaigdigang mga biktima nila. Pero alam nilang totoo ang tungkol sa mga higante, kayat sistematikong kinolekta at itinapon sa dagat ang mga ebidensyang kalansay. Inamin naman iyan ng ilang siyentipiko na konektado sa Smithsonian Institution at dokumentado.

Kailan lamang ay naisulat na rin ng ilang mga batikang manunulat at mananaliksik ang tungkol sa isang mabangis na higanteng napaslang ng mga US soldiers sa Afghanistan noong 2002. Tinaguriang Giant of Kandahar.

Sa panahon pa ngani ni Magellan may mga higante rin!

Hukayin mo, saliksikin at diskubrihin na kahit pa sa panahon ni Magellan bago ito nakarating sa Pilipinas at napaslang ni Lapu-Lapu, ay nagimbal siya sa nakita niyang mga higante. Nakasalamuha pa niya at mga kasamahan niya ang isa rito.

Ito ay naganap noong 1520, isang taon bago sila makarating sa Pilipinas. Isinulat naman ni Antonio Pigafetta na naging kasama pa rin ni Magellan sa Battle of Mactan hanggang makabalik sa Espana lulan ng barkong Victoria ang 17 naiwang buhay noong 1522.


Isinulat ni Pigafetta sa kanyang chronicles ang tungkol sa isang higanteng sumasayaw at lumulundag sa dalampasigan ng Argentina. 

Ang naisulat:

"...One day we suddenly saw a naked man of giant stature on the shore of the port, dancing, singing, and throwing dust on his head. The captain general sent one of our men to the giant so that he might perform the same actions as a sign of peace. Having done that, the man led the giant to an islet into the presence of the captain-general. When the giant was in the captain-general's and our presence, he marveled greatly, and made signs with one finger raised upward, believing that we had come from the sky. He was so tall that we reached only to his waist, and he was well proportioned. 

His face was large and painted red all over, while about his eyes he was painted yellow; and he had two hearts painted on the middle of his cheeks. His scanty hair was painted white. He was dressed in the skins of animals skillfully sewn together. That animal has a head and ears as large as those of a mule, a neck and body like those of a camel, the legs of a deer, and the tail of a horse, like which it neighs, and that land has very many of them. His feet were shod with the same kind of skins which covered his feet in the manner of shoes. In his hand he carried a short, heavy bow, with a cord somewhat thicker than those of the lute, and made from the intestines of the same animal, and a bundle of rather short cane arrows feathered like ours, and with points of white and black flint stones in the manner of Turkish arrows, instead of iron. Those points were fashioned by means of another stone." (Diary of Pigafetta, pp. 51-52).

"Here, have this bread, so as not to eat me instead." Source
Lumang mapa ng lugar ng mga higante sa Patagonia (bigfoot) sa Argentina

Ngayon naman, ang headline na ito, July 6, 2017:

Were the Remains of Biblical Giants Just Uncovered?

“The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.” Genesis 6:1-4 (The Israel Bible™)


Nephilim. Screenshot

Archaeologists have discovered a collection of 5,000-year old graves in China that contain remarkably tall skeletons, a description strongly reminiscent of the Biblical Nephilim who are believed to also play a significant role in the Final Battle on Mount Zion at the End of Days.

Throughout Eastern China in the Jiaojia village, archaeologists have been excavating the ruins of houses, graves, and sacrificial pits, unearthing more than 200 graves. The evidence of their discovery leads the experts to believe that the males in the village averaged a height of six feet, three inches.


Skeleton remains discovered in China point to resemblances with the Biblical Nephilim. 

That would be considered tall even by today’s standards when the average Chinese male stands at five feet, six inches. But considering the rapid growth of human height since this period, the inhabitants of Jiaojia 5,000 years ago would have been absolutely colossal by comparison

The skeletons found in China are consistent with the giants found in the Biblical narrative who were remarkably tall but still able to breed with human women. This is precisely the role Nephilim played in the beginning of the Bible preceding the story of the flood in the time of Noah. The text implies an unnatural sexual relationship between the Nephilim and human women. 

Full story on Breaking Israel News


Pero panis ang China 'giant skeletons' na ito kung ihahambing sa mga giants na dinokumento ni Steve Quayle. Purbahing panoorin ang intro sa Holocaust of Giants.

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

PH and US: 4th of July and the Philippines

July 4, 1946.  Philippine flag is raised while the U.S. flag is lowered. The flagpole in front of the Rizal Monument is thus known as the Independence Flagpole, commemorating the culmination of the quest for national independence.

July 4th

Filipinos used to celebrate this day as their Independence Day. For it was on July 4, 1946 when the formal recognition of Philippine independence by the United States of America took place. This Third Republic* was marked by the recognition by the global community of nations, of the nationhood of the Philippines.

The Philippine Islands were occupied by American forces in 1898, and were U.S. territory until 1935 when the Commonwealth government was established. But the Empire of Japan then occupied the country between 1941 and 1945, with a government-in-exile headed by President Manuel Luis Quezon operating in Australia and later in the US. The country thus fell under U.S. sovereignty for 48 years prior.

On that historic day of July 4, 1946, as the people of the United States of America celebrated their own Independence Day, a long-time Philippine resident, Gen. Douglas MacArthur returned to Manila to grace the occasion as guest.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrives at Nichols Field (now Villamor Air Base),
as guest at the inauguration of the Republic of the Philippines.

Said MacArthur:

"48 years ago the mantle of American sovereignty fell over this land and these people. It was the magnificent sovereignty of a liberator, pledged to be withdrawn as soon as the well-being of a people would safely permit.
 “America never wavered in that purpose. America today redeems that pledge. This land and these people that I have known so long and loved so well..."


Cover of the Official Souvenir Program of the Proclamation
and Inauguration of the Republic of the Philippines

Today, the Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines even corroborates this without twisting any of the facts:

The independence of the Philippines—and the inauguration of its Third Republic—was marked by Manuel Roxas re-taking his oath, eliminating the pledge of allegiance to the United States of America which was required prior to independence, this time as the first President of the Republic of the Philippines. The Congress of the Commonwealth then became the First Congress of the Republic, and international recognition was finally achieved as governments entered into treaties with the new republic.


Meaning, there was never any Independence Day celebration for Filipinos prior to 1946, simply because we were not yet an independent nation, right?

Front page of Manila Bulletin's Independence Edition,
its "Salute to Freedom"


Independence was delayed by just one year

Our Independence should have been granted in 1945 in accordance with the mentioned Act of the U.S. if not for the Japanese occupation of the Philippines that threw a wrench into the plan. A campaign to retake the country from the Japanese began only in October 1944, when Gen. Douglas MacArthur with his troops landed in Leyte. 

Long fierce land, sea and air battles ensued with intermittent fighting even after the official Japanese surrender in September 1945. After withdrawing her sovereignty from the Philippines as promised, the United States provided the needed reparations and free trade concessions to rebuild the war-ravaged and exceedingly poverty stricken country.


Official program of the Proclamation of the Independence of the Republic of the Philippines and inauguration of Pres. Roxas and Vice Pres Quirino

So how come we're celebrating "Araw ng Kalayaan" now on a different date, and what is the Philippine Republic Day all about? Did we just decide one day in the recent past to reinvent our history?
  
Going back to 1962, we remember that President Diosdado Macapagal issued a Proclamation which declared June 12 (the date in 1898, when Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo declared our independence from Spain), a special public holiday throughout the Philippines. Macapagal cited that “the establishment of the Philippine Republic by the Revolutionary Government under General Emilio Aguinaldo on June 12, 1898, marked our people’s declaration and exercise of their right to self-determination, liberty and independence.”
Heneral Miong was there himself on July 4, 1946. Veterans of the Philippine Revolution led by Gen Emilio Aguinaldo join the parade in their rayadillo uniform.

Two years later, on August 4, 1964, through Republic Act No. 4166 “Philippine Independence Day” was changed from July 4 to June 12, and July 4 was declared "Philippine Republic Day" that happens to coincide with the Independence Day of the United States.

What about “Philippine-American Friendship Day”?

That day was originally established in 1955 under President Ramon Magsaysay who issued Presidential Proclamation 212 for the observance of Philippine-American Day every 15 November, the anniversary of the inauguration of the Philippine Commonwealth on November 15, 1935.

(A Philippine Independence Act was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1934 and signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt specifying a 10-year period of peaceful transition to full independence, the date of which was to be on the 4th of July following the tenth anniversary (or by 1945), of the Commonwealth.)




But sometime under the rule of President Ferdinand Marcos, "Philippine–American Day" was renamed "Philippine–American Friendship Day" and was simply moved to 4th July. "Republic Day" was no more.  

Celebrating Philippine–American Friendship Day or Republic Day as a non-working holiday were, however, decidedly abolished in 1987 by President Corazon C. Aquino. In a news report Aquino’s press secretary said ''July 4 is no longer a holiday. The president said we are friends, the U.S. and the Philippines, but we don't need to have a holiday for it.''

In 1996, President Fidel V. Ramos found it fitting to once again commemorate the anniversary of Republic Day on July 4. He issued Proclamation No. 811 to mark it not with a holiday but with public celebrations to commemorate 50 years of independence!

All of these only means that as of July 4, 2016, the Philippines has been an independent nation for seventy years! 

But is anyone counting the years or remembering at all? Why or why not?

"A new nation is born", Field Marshal of the Philippines, Douglas MacArthur said, calling the day as "turning point in the age-long struggle of man for liberty".

(*The First Republic is the “Malolos Republic” (1899), the Second Republic is the Japanese-sponsored “Philippine Republic”(1943), and the Third Republic (1946), is when the Philippines as an independent nation was eventually recognized by the global community of nations.)





All photos courtesy of the Presidential Museum and Library.

Saturday, December 3, 2016

Si Diokno, si Ramos atbp: Paghukay sa bangkay, hindi sa kasaysayan, o may pakay pang iba?

Stop Duterte-Marcos alliance daw o tapos magbibida tungkol sa Demokrasya?

Si Diokno atbp - Pakay ay paghukay ng bangkay at hindi ng kasaysayan, o may iba pang pakay?

Tama lamang na magresign ang ilang mga namumuno sa National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP), na pinangunahan ni Maria Serena Diokno. Mayroon pala silang isinusulong na mga sariling paniniwala na gusto naman nilang isaksak sa isipan ng mga Pilipino. Na si Diokno ay umakyat pa sa entablado ng anti-Marcos rally para isigaw ang kanyang sariling paniniwala kontra paglibing kay Marcos ay pruweba lamang ng pagsulong sa kanyang agendang pulitikal at bias sa kasaysayan. 

Ang nagaganap aniya ay pagbabago ng kasaysayan, at ang desisyon niya na magresign ay nangangahulugan ng pagkilos tungo sa "tamang panig ng kasaysayan".

Subalit hindi trabaho ng responsableng historian, lalo na kung ikaw ang pinuno ng NHCP na ipamukha ng harap-harapan sa mga tao ang kaniyang bias, o pagkiling hinggil sa isang kasaysayan at igiit na iyon lamang ang dapat paniwalaan. 

Tama ang kanyang nabanggit na ang kasaysayan ay binabase sa primary sources. Pero magkakaroon lamang ng katumpakan ang pananalisik na isinasagawa kung iba't-ibang primary sources ang huhukayin mo at hindi mo pipiliin kung alin lamang ang siyang makakatulong sa pagsulong ng iyong personal na pampulitikal na pakay - na dala rin marahil, sa kasong ito, ng kanyang pinanggalingan bilang anak ng isang yumao nang respetadong politiko. Isang politikong tumuligsa noon sa Hacienda Luisita Massacre at bumitaw sa Cory Aquino government dahil sa naganap na pagpaslang ng militar sa mga magbubukid.



Bias at panlilinlang

Lahat ng primary sources ay may dalang katotohanan at mayroon ding halong kasinungalingan, dahil ang mga sources ay may kani-kaniya ring bias. Bagamat ang bias ay hindi kapareho ng panlilinlang, may mga bias naman na maaaring humantong sa tahasang panlilinlang. Kayat ang kabuuhan lamang ng mga sangkap na ito ang maaaring masabing katotohanan. Sa huli, ang mapanuring estudyante ng kasaysayan naman ang magbubuo ng kaniyang sariling konklusyon.

Dahil hindi naman eksaktong siyensiya ang kasaysayan. Mas maituturing na pag-aaral ito ng tao tungkol sa mga tao para maunawaan ang nakalipas. Kaya't wala kang dapat palampasin o isantabi na mga datos.



"Marcos, Hitler, Diktador, Tuta!" ang isinisigaw ng mga rallyista.

Walang duda na si Marcos ay naging diktador. Hindi rin mapagdududahan na siya ay naging "Tuta ng Kano". Kung ganoon, masasabing siya ay Diktador na Tuta ng Kano. Ang tanong: may isinagawa bang masusing pananaliksik ang NHCP, o itinulak ng DepEd man, bilang mandato nila kung paano naging kakatwang 'diktador na tuta ng Kano' si Marcos para sa edukasyon ng mga Pilipino at para sila maliwanagan? 

May masusing pag-aaral ba na isinapubliko sa usaping ito ang NHCP na gawain nila kung sila ay totoo sa kanilang responsibilidad bilang mga historians? Ito ba ay itinuturo sa lahat ng mga pampubliko o pampribadong mga paaralan at unibersidad? O ang mga ito, kung meron man, ay sadyang iniitsipuwera? 



Millenials

Makikitang karamihan ng mga estudyanteng nagpoprotesta (tinatawag ngayong millenials dahil hindi nakasaksi sa panahon ni Marcos), ay mula sa mga pribadong Katolikong kolehiyo at unibersidad sa Maynila, kasama ng mga politiko ng oposisyon (ang tawag ngayon ay yellow oligarchy), at iba pang mga kontra-Duterte na nangunguna at prominente sa mga anti-Marcos rally na nagaganap.

Kailangan  naman nating mag-isip din at suriin kung ano ang kanilang nakatagong pakay, na mababanaag naman, at maririnig pa ng malakas sa mga kaganapang ito.


May mga makabayang grupo naman na kamakailan ay sa harap ng US embassy nagprotesta laban sa iba't-ibang mas malalim na bangungot na idinulot naman ng America sa Pilipinas.

Papel ng America

Ano ba ang tingin ng US at ilang manunulat nila tungkol sa Pilipinas, isama na natin ang ilang Pilipinong mananaliksik?

Una, hindi marahil kayang isulat ng mga historians sa NHCP na ang Pilipinas ay nananatiling isang neo-colony ng Amerika. Ibig sabihin, dahil ito ay nasakop ng America sa loob ng 50 taon at naging malaya kuno bilang isang bansa ay nanatili pa ring kontrolado o hawak sa leeg ng US, sa pamamagitan ng economic pressure, political suppression at cultural dominance. Malaki ang interes pang-ekonomiya ng US sa Pilipinas, dahil pangunahin itong pangangailangan para maging military at intelligence base ang bansa ayon sa datos.

Bisitahin natin ang ilang katunayang pangkasaysayan. 

Hango sa United States in the Philippines, ni Larry Chin, sa bahaging 'Manila, Washington and Globalization'



Tinaguriang "Zaire ng Asia" ang Pilipinas ni Jonathan Kwitny sa Endless Enemies. Ang Pilipinas aniya, "ang isang bansa sa Asia kung saan tayo (ang America), ay nagsagawa ng mga patagong political activity, minsan ay bakbakan, at ang nagiging resulta ng mga ito ay kung ano ang ating gusto. Bawat pakikipaglaban sa mga gerilya ay lagi tayong panalo, bawat halalan, totoo man o dinaya, ay palaging nagresulta sa pagkapanalo ng kung sino ang gusto ng US government".

Ayon naman kay Gary Leupp, associate professor ng history at coordinator ng Asian Studies Program sa Tufts University: "Ang Pilipinas ay naging US colony mula 1898 hanggang 1946. Ika-sampu ng populasyon nito ay napawi sa unang ginawang US exercise in counter-insurgency sa Asia. Sinuportahan ng US ang mga serye ng malulupit na rehimen muna noong kalayaan kuno ng Pilipinas, lalo na iyong kay Ferdinand Marcos."



Sa Development Debacle: The World Bank in the Philippines ni Walden Bello ng UP, idinetalye niya kung paano isinagawa ng World Bank, CIA at iba pang US agencies ang pandarambong sa domestic economy ng Pilipinas at kung paanong ang "Asian market crisis" noong huling bahagi ng 1990s ay direktang resulta nito.



Si Bobby Tuazon naman, Filipino investigative journalist, ay inilahad na ang sunod-sunod na administrasyon nina Marcos, Aquino, Ramos, Estrada, Arroyo (at paano mo ihihiwalay ang ikalawang Aquino), ay ipinagpatuloy lamang ang tradisyon ng walang humpay na pagsasamantala sa Pilipinas sa pamamagitan ng US at foreign capital.




Si Ramos naman... ay tao ng Kano

Isang pamamaraan para malaman at maunawaan naman ang bahagi ng mga pangyayari, at tuloy malaman ang katotohanan sa kasaysayan ay kung babalikan lamang ang nakalipas na bukas ang pag-iisip. At maaaring wala ng iba pang paraan.

Isa si Fidel Ramos, dating Pangulo, ang umiingay ng paayon sa mga protestang nagaganap ngayon. Bakit kaya? At alam kaya ng mga millenials na si Ramos ang tinatayang pinaka-responsable sa mga human rights abuses na naganap noong Martial Law? Na si Ramos ang nagpatakbo ng Philippine Constabulary (PC) noon bilang Chief mula 1972-1981. Ang PC ang responsable sa pag-aresto, gayundin sa pag-torture ng mga sibilyan. 

Kamakailan, isang kilalang manunulat ng Manila Times pa ang nagsabi na si Ramos ang dapat humingi ng paumanhin sa mga pagpaslang at karahasang naganap noong Martial Law.

Ramos at the Pentagon 1998 with Defense Secretary William Cohen

Ito ay bahagi lamang ng, The United States in the Philippines ni Larry Chin, freelance journalist at nalathala sa Global Research (2002):

Former President Fidel V. Ramos is Arroyo’s “special envoy for international opportunities.” Despite his denials about the importance of his role, Ramos functions essentially as the country’s co-president.
He is also a direct agent of the Bush oligarchy.
Ramos is a senior advisor of the Carlyle Group and the head of Carlyle’s Asian advisory board. Its directors include former US president George Herbert Walker Bush, former US secretary of state James Baker, current US secretary of state Colin Powell...
Carlyle’s client list has included the likes of the bin Laden family and George Soros (a major player involved in the so-called Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s). 
During his presidency, Ramos was Washington’s best friend. As Daniel Schirmer described in 'Fidel Ramos: In the Footsteps of Marcos?': “Ramos follows the lead of Ferdinand Marcos in willingness to open the Philippines to foreign capital, with minimal restraint. He follows the lead of Marcos in solicitous attention to the claims of the U.S. military, covered over when politically expedient by gestures of nationalist intent.”
“President Ramos’s commitment to the reign of the free market in the Philippines and Asia is well known, especially since he played host to the 1996 APEC conference in Manila. Less known in the United States, perhaps, are the efforts he and his administration have made on behalf of the U.S. military in the Philippines. Since the Philippine Senate defeated the bases treaty in September 1991, the Pentagon has been trying to re-establish its military presence in the Philippines in order to be able to use that country again as a springboard for U.S. power projection. President Ramos and his administration have been the Pentagon’s main allies in this effort.”
“Ramos’ adherence to both free market ideology and US military dominance is evident in his support for the Pentagon’s policy of ‘rest and recreation’ in the Philippines (widely understood as the US military’s use of Philippine women as prostitutes). He apparently accepts as normal and legitimate the exploitation of cheap Philippine labor—in this case sexual labor—by the armed forces of the superpower.”
“As a high military official of the Marcos dictatorship Ramos supported the U.S. bases; as President Aquino’s Minister of Defense he continued this support. In November 1994 the Pentagon, with Ramos’s support, proposed to broaden the limited access agreement of 1992 with an Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA) giving the U.S. military rights in the Philippines, and the use of Philippine territory as a launching pad for possible U.S. intervention.”

Paglibing kay Marcos
Sa naganap na mga protest rallies, sino kaya ang tunay na nagmistulang maging tuta dala ng 30 taon, o isang buong henerasyon ng walang humpay na propaganda at pagdidikta - kayat naging miserableng tagalunok lamang sila ng kasaysayan ayon sa iba't-ibang aninong dilaw at itim?

Iba pang personalidad Sino ang iba pang mga dumalo sa anti-Marcos rally? Ilan lamang sa kanila na dumalo o humimok sa millenials ay sina...





At nailabas tuloy ang totoong pakay:

Biglang "Rally vs Duterte" ayon sa mainstream media.

Biglang Rally vs Bongbong Marcos ayon sa isang Tarp.

Photo credits to their owners.

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Macario Sakay, revolutionary leader, was hanged on Sept. 13 inside Old Bilibid

As the Battle of Pulang Lupa was commemorated yesterday, Sept. 13 in Marinduque, others find it fitting also to reflect on the death on the same day of a revolutionary leader, Macario Sakay. He was among the last of the Filipino resistance fighters to surrender to the Americans.



(Seated L to R: Julian Montalan, Francisco Carreon, Macario Sakay and Leon Villafuerte; standing, L to R: Benito Natividad and Lucio de Vega.
Photo taken in 1907.)

Sakay was hanged on Friday the 13th of September 1907 on charges of banditry and armed rebellion, along with Lucio de Vega.

Born on January 3, 1870 in Tondo, Manila, Sakay, a close confidante of Andres Bonifacio, was one of the early members of the Katipunan.

During the Filipino-American War, General Sakay fled to the mountains, organized the revolutionary forces in Bulacan, Pampanga, Morong (now Rizal), Cavite, Laguna, and Batangas, and later on proclaimed what he called the Tagalog Republic.

The Tagalog Republic had its own flag and with Sakay chosen as president, Francisco Carreon as vice president, drew up a Constitution largely based on the Katipunan creed of Bonifacio and warned all Filipinos not to swear allegiance to the United States.

His last words:
Death comes to all of us sooner or later, so that I will face the Lord Almighty calmly. But I want to tell you that we are not bandits and robbers, as the Americans have accused us, but members of the revolutionary forces that defended our mother country, Filipinas! Farewell! Long, live the republic and may our independence be born in the future! Farewell! Long Live Filipinas!

In its second regular session, the Philippine Senate (14th congress) adopted Resolution #623 honoring Macario Sakay and other Filipinos who gave up their lives for our freedom. 

This senate resolution called for the creation of a life-size statue of General Sakay by the Manila Historical Heritage Commission in Plaza Morga, Tondo Manila.

According to this Senate resolution, the National Historical Institute and the University of the Philippines have erected a marker at the foot of Mt. Banahaw where Macario Sakay and his troops gathered and performed their function as freedom fighters. PNA/Senate. Also read.

Friday, September 9, 2016

Duterte reminds US of Bud Dajo massacre


'Yan na ngani ang inasabi ko ay

Estela Estremera, SunStar



BUD DAJO MASSACRE. A photo from http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/ with the title “US soldiers pose with the bodies of Moro insurgents, Philippines, 1906” is captioned: The bodies of Moro insurgents and civilians killed by US troops during the Battle of Bud Dajo in the Philippines, March 7, 1906. (Above is same photo from MNLF website)


PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte was referring to the killing of 600 Moro people by American soldiers in 1906 when he said Monday, September 5, that the United States has not even apologized to the Philippines for its atrocities during the turn of the century.

Duterte spewed out a tirade of historical extra-judicial killings when asked by a Reuters reporter Monday about discussing extra-judicial killings (EJKs) with US President Barack Obama.

“Who is he? When as a matter of fact at the turn of the century, before the Americans left, the Philippines, in the pacification campaign of the Moro in this island, there were around 6 million ang population ng Moro, how many died? Six hundred. If you can answer this question and give an apology, I will answer him,” Duterte said.

The incident he was referring to happened in 1906 in the island of Jolo, Sulu. It was named the Battle of Bud Dajo.

It was in December 1898 when the US signed a treaty with Spain, acquiring the Philippines for $20 million. The Filipinos, however, refused the takeout and they waged a war.

On July 4, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt declared the war over after successfully subjugating the insurrectionist Filipino forces, and in his own proclamation said, “except in the country inhabited by the Moro tribes, to which this proclamation does not apply.”

The Moro Province was created in 1903, comprising the southern Mindanao and the Sulu islands. Unlike the other provinces, the Moro Province was to be staffed by US Army officers, simply because US believed the Moro Province was backward and need to be civilized and educated on democracy.

The Americans capitalized on the tribal divisions of the Moro Province and subdued them that way. Except those in Jolo. Despite three years of persuasion by Woods, the leader of the Jolo tribes refused to recognize the US as the ruler of the country.

In 1906, hearing words that the Americans were going to invade, the Jolo people fled to the 15-acre wooded crater of Bud Dajo, an extinct volcano, believing that the spirits of the volcano will protect them.

On March 5, 1906, Woods ordered his officers to gather 800 of his men from the 6th and 19th Infantry, the 4th Cavalry, the 28th Artillery Battery, the Sulu Constabulary, and sailors from the gunboat Pampanga, led by Colobnel Duncan, to Jolo.

They were armed with mountain guns, rifles, bayonets, fast-firing pistols and grenades.
When negotiations for the Moro people who sought refuge in Bud Dajo failed, they attacked.

The Moro warriors were armed with kris, barongs, and spears. The attack ended on March 7, 1906, with not one Moro standing; women and children among them.

The Americans lost two dozen men and some 70 wounded. It was a complete massacre.

The “victory” that was earlier celebrated in the US was immediately tainted with shame after the US Congress realized there were women and children among the dead.

"The PH is not a vassal state, we have long ceased to be a colony of the US. Alam mo, marami diyang mga columnista they look upon Obama and the US as we are the lapdogs of this country. I do not respond to anybody but to the people of the Republic of the Philippines. Wala akong pakialam sa kanya. Who is he to confront me, as a matter of fact, America has one too many to answer for the misdeeds in this country," Duterte said.

Also Read:

Muslim Moro massacre by Americans referred to by President Duterte

Monday, July 4, 2016

More July 4, 1946 Philippine Independence photos


July 4, 1946. An arch fronting the Manila City Hall in Taft Avenue (left) with the sign 'Manila Welcomes Distinguished Guests'. Burgos Street to the right.
The old Legislative Building (now National Museum), is still in ruins after the war as seen in the background. Some hotels near the old Dewey Boulevard (now Roxas Boulevard) could also be seen.



Pastedown endpaper of "A Republic is Born",
the Official Commemorative Volume on Independence Day, July 4, 1946


The  President of the Philippine Republic, Manuel Roxas delivering his inaugural address during the ceremonies attending the Proclamation of the Republic of the Philippines, July 4, 1946.

The distinguished guests welcomed by the City of Manila at Luneta to witness the proclamation of Philippine Independence

The last Flag of the USA that was used on the occasion of
Philippine Independence had 48 stars.
Commemorative Medal for Independence Day 1946.

Backside of the commemorative medal states:
INDEPENDENCE DAY, JULY 4, 1946, MANILA

All photos from Presidential Museum and Library



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4th of July and the Philippines: 70 years of our Independence, honestly

July 4, 1946.  Philippine flag is raised while the U.S. flag is lowered. The flagpole in front of the Rizal Monument is thus known as the Independence Flagpole, commemorating the culmination of the quest for national independence.


July 4

Filipinos used to celebrate this day as their Independence Day. For it was on July 4, 1946 when the formal recognition of Philippine independence by the United States of America took place. This Third Republic* was marked by the recognition by the global community of nations, of the nationhood of the Philippines.

The Philippine Islands were occupied by American forces in 1898, and were U.S. territory until 1935 when the Commonwealth government was established. But the Empire of Japan then occupied the country between 1941 and 1945, with a government-in-exile headed by President Manuel Luis Quezon operating in Australia and later in the US. The country thus fell under U.S. sovereignty for 48 years prior.

On that historic day of July 4, 1946, as the people of the United States of America celebrated their own Independence Day, a long-time Philippine resident, Gen. Douglas MacArthur returned to Manila to grace the occasion as guest.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrives at Nichols Field (now Villamor Air Base),
as guest at the inauguration of the Republic of the Philippines.

Said MacArthur:

"48 years ago the mantle of American sovereignty fell over this land and these people. It was the magnificent sovereignty of a liberator, pledged to be withdrawn as soon as the well-being of a people would safely permit.

 “America never wavered in that purpose. America today redeems that pledge. This land and these people that I have known so long and loved so well..."


Cover of the Official Souvenir Program of the Proclamation
and Inauguration of the Republic of the Philippines

Today, the Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines even corroborates this without twisting any of the facts:

The independence of the Philippines—and the inauguration of its Third Republic—was marked by Manuel Roxas re-taking his oath, eliminating the pledge of allegiance to the United States of America which was required prior to independence, this time as the first President of the Republic of the Philippines. The Congress of the Commonwealth then became the First Congress of the Republic, and international recognition was finally achieved as governments entered into treaties with the new republic.


Meaning, there was never any Independence Day celebration for Filipinos prior to 1946, simply because we were not yet an independent nation, right?

Front page of Manila Bulletin's Independence Edition,
its "Salute to Freedom"


Independence was delayed by just one year

Our Independence should have been granted in 1945 in accordance with the mentioned Act of the U.S. if not for the Japanese occupation of the Philippines that threw a wrench into the plan. A campaign to retake the country from the Japanese began only in October 1944, when Gen. Douglas MacArthur with his troops landed in Leyte. 

Long fierce land, sea and air battles ensued with intermittent fighting even after the official Japanese surrender in September 1945. After withdrawing her sovereignty from the Philippines as promised, the United States provided the needed reparations and free trade concessions to rebuild the war-ravaged and exceedingly poverty stricken country.


Official program of the Proclamation of the Independence of the Republic of the Philippines and inauguration of Pres. Roxas and Vice Pres Quirino

So how come we're celebrating "Araw ng Kalayaan" now on a different date, and what is the Philippine Republic Day all about? Did we just decide one day in the recent past to reinvent our history?
  
Going back to 1962, we remember that President Diosdado Macapagal issued a Proclamation which declared June 12 (the date in 1898, when Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo declared our independence from Spain), a special public holiday throughout the Philippines. Macapagal cited that “the establishment of the Philippine Republic by the Revolutionary Government under General Emilio Aguinaldo on June 12, 1898, marked our people’s declaration and exercise of their right to self-determination, liberty and independence.”
Heneral Miong was there himself on July 4, 1946. Veterans of the Philippine Revolution led by Gen Emilio Aguinaldo join the parade in their rayadillo uniform.

Two years later, on August 4, 1964, through Republic Act No. 4166 “Philippine Independence Day” was changed from July 4 to June 12, and July 4 was declared "Philippine Republic Day" that happens to coincide with the Independence Day of the United States.

What about “Philippine-American Friendship Day”?

That day was originally established in 1955 under President Ramon Magsaysay who issued Presidential Proclamation 212 for the observance of Philippine-American Day every 15 November, the anniversary of the inauguration of the Philippine Commonwealth on November 15, 1935.

(A Philippine Independence Act was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1934 and signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt specifying a 10-year period of peaceful transition to full independence, the date of which was to be on the 4th of July following the tenth anniversary (or by 1945), of the Commonwealth.)




But sometime under the rule of President Ferdinand Marcos, "Philippine–American Day" was renamed "Philippine–American Friendship Day" and was simply moved to 4 July. "Republic Day" was no more.  

Celebrating Philippine–American Friendship Day or Republic Day as a non-working holiday were, however, decidedly abolished in 1987 by President Corazon C. Aquino. In a news report Aquino’s press secretary said ''July 4 is no longer a holiday. The president said we are friends, the U.S. and the Philippines, but we don't need to have a holiday for it.''

In 1996, President Fidel V. Ramos found it fitting to once again commemorate the anniversary of Republic Day on July 4. He issued Proclamation No. 811 to mark it not with a holiday but with public celebrations to commemorate 50 years of independence!

All of these only means that as of July 4, 2016, the Philippines has been an independent nation for seventy years! 

But is anyone counting the years or remembering at all? Why or why not?

"A new nation is born", Field Marshal of the Philippines, Douglas MacArthur said, calling the day as "turning point in the age-long struggle of man for liberty".

(*The First Republic is the “Malolos Republic” (1899), the Second Republic is the Japanese-sponsored “Philippine Republic”(1943), and the Third Republic (1946), is when the Philippines as an independent nation was eventually recognized by the global community of nations.)




All photos from the Presidential Museum and Library.