On the occasion of Independence day, and since the internet is abuzz these days with HADITHA I thought its appropriate to remind my fellow pinoys of what happened during the so called ” Philippine Insurrection”.

“Kill every one over ten.” - Gen. Jacob H. Smith
Criminals Because They Were Born Ten Years Before We Took the Philippines.
Editorial cartoon from the New York Evening Journal, May 5, 1902.

Those were two words General “Jake” Smith as they transformed Balangiga into a “howling wilderness.”. Learn more about it and its aftermath here.

Mga kababayang kong pinoy, it is high time that the Filipino people sought an official act of atonement and an official apology from the U.S. government for the countless atrocities committed against Filipinos.

Whats happened in haditha is just the latest of a long litany of american atrocities commited in times of war be it in iraq, vietnam, korea or the philippines.

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