The treachery of the Anglo-Saxon Americans. They promised the Filippinos independence if they were to help the US to fight and drive out the Spanish imperialist. However, after defeating Spain in December 1898, the Americans reneged on their promise and refused to grant independence to the Filippinos. Their spurious excuse was that the Filippinos were uncivilise and were unfit for self-government for they would have anarchy and misrule.
The Filippinos then rose up in revolt under the great leadership of Emilio Aguinaldo. However, the rebellion was crushed with great brutality by 80,000 American troops. After crushing the rebellion the Americans carried out horrible atrocities against the Filippino civilians who also continued to resist American imperialism.It took about four years for the American imperialist to crush the rebellion resulting in the brutal killings of over three hundred thousand Filippino resistant fighters and over three million deaths of Filippino civilians both from US genocide and from disease and famine.
The Filippinos will never forget the violent and brutal occupation of the Philippines by the evil American imperialist. The diabolical and abominable American occupation lasted from 1898 to December, 1946 after the end of the Second World War.
The American imperial occupation of the Philippines faced fierce violent resistance from patriotic and heroic Filippinos. But no matter what the American imperialist had to suppress this rebellion because it had intended to make use of the Philippines as a base for its imperial venture further into China and other east Asia countries. Its blood thirsty desire for empire and for further imperial ventures had yet to be quenched. Thus it had to suppress the local Filippino rebellion with the utmost brutality, atrocity and violence to secure the Philippines base. Further more the Philippines is endowed with very rich abundant mineral and agriculture resources like gold, copper, nickle, rice, sugar, coffee, coconuts and tobacco which would go a long way to enrich the United States.
Below are some of the descriptions of the utmost brutalities and atrocities carried out by the invading Americans against the Filippinos in its determination to secure its diabolical imperial hold on the Philippines.
The white American invaders - their senators and generals and army officers claimed that the war against the Philippines had to be cruel and fought with the fierceness and brutalities as demanded because they were not dealing with Anglo-Saxon Americans or Europeans but with unsavoury Orientals.
The war started when the American army fired indiscriminately on the peaceful demonstrations in Manila against the American invaders. Soon the Philippine insurgents spread throughout the whole country. In the town of Caloocan the US army set fire to all the houses. Those who tried to escape from the fire were quickly mauled down by bullets. Hardly more than a few hundred of the original 20,000 inhabitants survived the genocide. The few survivors mostly women and children were badly burnt and left to die untreated. The American soldiers boasted that their fighting blood was boiling as they all wanted to kill the little brownies and that shooting brownies was more thrilling than hunting and shooting rabbits.
In addition to the indiscriminate brutality of war on the Filippinos there was an added element of racial hostility, of white superiority and hatred of the brownies as they disrespectfully referred to the Filippinos. The war was bloody and the Americans were relentless to kill and exterminate men, women, children, prisoners and captives. Also insurgents and suspects from the age of ten were rounded up and summarily killed as the American prevailing idea was that the Filippino brownies were only a little bit better than a dog.
American soldiers pumped salt water into Filippino prisoners to make them talk and after which they were shot and killed. Even Filippinos who held up their hands and peacefully surrendered were brought up to a bridge where they were shot down one by one to drop into the river below and float down as warning to other Filippinos of the fate they would face if they opposed the Americans.
An American general boasted that at least about 40 percent of the population of Luzon had been killed by the Americans the death of which went on to justify and serve the legitimate purpose of American invasion. Yet the Secretary of War Elihu Root arrogantly and falsely claimed that the war in the Philippines was conducted by the American army "with scrupulous regard for the rules of civilized warfare and that it was conducted with self-restraint and with humanity never surpassed."
In Manila , a marine named Littletown Waller, a major, was accused of shooting more than ten defenseless Filippinos without trial on the island of Samar. In his testimony of defense he claimed that he was ordered by General Smith to kill and burn and that General Smith told him that the more he killed and burnt the better he would be pleased and that there was no time to take prisoners for he would like to make Samar a howling wilderness. And when Waller asked General Smith to define the age limit for killing he was told " Everyone over ten."
In the province of Batangas about 120,000 inhabitants of the total population of 300, 000 were butchered by the US army while many others died of famine and disease. The Americans deprived the Filipinos of food and medicine to weaken them and deter them from further resistance.
All over the Philippines the Americans claimed to have pacified thousands of Filippinos by killing them and burying them, by destroying their crops, burnt their villages and forced their women and children out of their houses and exiled others to inhospitable terrains. Millions of other Filipinos were rounded up and incarcerated with many mercilessly tortured before they were killed.
The American war on the Philippinos was undoubtedly to the advantage of the invaders as the Americans had overwhelming superior firepower against the meager obsolete arms that the Filippinos could muster. Around the Pasig River the American guns and cannons pounded on the Filippinos killling thousands that the dead Philippino bodies piled up like mole-hills. The scene was just plain massacre and murderous butchery.
However, inspite of overwhelming odds the insurgents persisted in their fight as they had the full support of the population who were just as determined to drive out the abominable savage Americans. They had to resort to fight a protracted guerilla warfare against the Americans. The fight against the American invaders lasted for over four years. But unfortunately American overwhelming superior firepower prevailed and the Philippines succumbed to the invaders and became a servile colony of the United States.
The Philippinos had fought the Americans with undaunted bravery and great fighting spirit and heroism as against the cowardly Americans who relied on their superior arms to achieve unbridled killings and murderous massacre.
Southernglory1 Aka Yang Rong Nan
Saturday, May 14th, 2022
NB: Please spare a few precious minutes and forward this article to every Philipino in Singapore and in the Philippines as well as to every friend and relative so that they can be kept aware of the evil and wicked Americans and their diabolical deeds of terrorism and never ending abominable aggressive wars of conquest and destruction around the world for the last over 200 years.
9 comments:
The American contribute nothing. At least the Spanish left many pretty mixed blood Pinoy beauty that won the Miss world contest
My ex-maid claimed that her great great great great grandfather was a Spanish general, don't know real or bluff . . .
If she look mixed blood it's like true. Then u very lucky man
The Evil USA left behind lots of sperms to impregnate the Pinoy women and lots of sufferings of missing , Naval Officers, GIs and Soldiers.
In addition, they also left behind murderous personalities who are not able to fit into the society.
The summit with Southeast Asian leaders organised and hosted by President Joe Biden concluded at the White House on Friday with a group statement that omitted any condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Singapoor, the enthusiastic loud trumpeter for the US, is disappointed.
Likely Next 12 Years of Warm China-Pinoy Ties
Sara Duterte's comfortable election as the Philippines' next vice president on May 9, alongside winning presidential running mate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., will be warmly welcomed in Beijing.
With Marcos likely to bring the Philippines closer to China to help consolidate his family's return to the Malacanang Palace, Sara Duterte, daughter of outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte, represents something an added return on Beijing's investment in Philippine presidential politics.
Since her father's election in 2016, Sara Duterte has built strong relations with Chinese government officials in her capacity as mayor of Davao City on the southern island of Mindanao.
Taking advantage of direct foreign investments and other commercial opportunities from China, Sara Duterte has developed the Davao region and integrated Davao city, the region's capital, with several Chinese provinces.
Establishing a consulate in Davao in 2018 with the primary purpose of strengthening their ties with the Dutertes, in February 2020, the Chinese ambassador Huang Xilian traveled to Davao City to meet with Sara Duterte and her brother, Vice Mayor Sebastian Duterte, to praise the duo for their COVID vaccination management and affirm their long-term friendship.
The Davao consulate has also become a place from which Chinese government officials can interact directly with other Mindanao politicians, regularly playing host to celebrations, dinners and other formal and informal events.
The Chinese consul general regularly visits officials at agencies such as the Bureau of Customs in the port of Davao and the local offices of the National Economic Development Authority.
A search of the Philippine Security Exchange Commission's company registration database reveals the extent to which Davao has been a recipient of Chinese foreign direct investment and development finance since Rodrigo Duterte first became mayor more than two decades ago: 445 new companies backed by Chinese investors were registered between 2000 and 2019.
These include businesses in mining, construction, real estate, wholesale and retail sales, all contributing to local government revenues and boosting employment, as well as helping the region transition away from a focus on agriculture to a more services-oriented economy.
Davao City has become increasingly integrated with several Chinese provinces, as Davao and other parts of Mindanao have sought to increase foreign investors and tourists to their own towns and cities as they try to create an alternative path for the commercial activity normally centered around the Philippine economic heartland on the island of Luzon.
Manila's relaxation of visa entry requirements and government policies intended to ease travel have resulted in a surge of Chinese tourists to Mindanao.
There are now commercial flights from Davao City to the Chinese cities of Beijing and Tianjin, and in 2018, XiamenAir established direct flights between Davao and Jianjiang. Chinese tourists have taken advantage of these changes, making up over 37% of Davao's total foreign tourist visits in 2019.
Chinese tourists have also been integral to spurring businesses and local development in Davao. Some local estimates suggest that Chinese tourists spend an average of $3,000 each over a typical five-day visit on food, accommodation and transport.
These interactions have resulted in even stronger relations between Davao City and China. Nanning and Jinjiang are now sister cities to Davao, with both donating face masks, infrared thermometers and personal protective equipment to Davao during the worst of the pandemic.
In sum, China seems to have won over Sara Duterte and her family, likely securing China's political interests in the Philippines for the next six years and possibly the six years after that if Sara Duterte succeeds Marcos as president, as is widely expected.
As the hypocritical US and its allies including Singapore imposed unilateral sanctions, not authorized by the United Nations, on Russia, a new economic and cultural Iron Curtain is descending on the European continent. While the unilateral sanctions continue to hurt Europe and the world at large, the US has launched a new campaign to isolate Russia in international organizations.
On April 7, the United Nations General Assembly voted to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council, after the US accused Russian troops of torturing and killing Ukrainian civilians in the town of Bucha. The US also tried to put pressure on Indonesia, which holds the G20 Presidency this year, to kick Russia out of G20 forum of major economies of the world. To the disappointment of the US, however, Indonesia insisted on inviting President Putin to the G20 Summit. But for the US and its Western allies, there is no shortage of occasions for them to display rudeness and arrogance: having their representatives walk out of the G20 finance ministers' meeting when the Russian delegate began to speak. On the Latin America front, supported by the US, the Organization of American States recently approved suspension of Russia's observer status. The US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman even went so far as to indicate that the US has been "investigating the prospects" of expelling Russia as one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
Behind the attempts to exclude Russia from all international organizations and turn Russia into the "pariah on the international stage" as President Biden put it, the real purpose of the US is to maintain its hegemony in international affairs. But the hypocrisy is that the country itself is the biggest transgressor of international rules.
Despite its own track record of mass killing and human rights violations, the US constantly criticizes the human rights situation of other countries, a typical act of double standards. From Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan to Libya, Somalia and Syria, the US started 10 wars between 1989 and 2017 and caused 6 million casualties. From the end of World War II in 1945 to 2001, among the 248 armed conflicts that occurred in 153 regions of the world, 201 were initiated by the US. A report from Brown University revealed that the wars launched by the US in the two decades following the 9/11 terrorist attack killed more than 900,000 people. In June 2018, the US pulled out of the Human Rights Council, calling it a "cesspool of political bias" and "hypocritical body" that "makes a mockery of human rights". As it rejoined the council this year, the US not only failed to reflect upon its own human rights record and take concrete steps to improve it, but instead expelled Russia from the body out of political bias and purpose.
Obsessed with its self-conceived "exceptionalism", the US keeps criticizing others for violating international law while applying international rules selectively or placing its own "house rules" above international law. The US asks others to follow the "rules-based order", but tramples on international rules and withdraws from international organizations at will itself, as evidenced by its unilateral military intervention or wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, as well as its pulling out of UNESCO, JCPOA, and the Paris Agreement. It also puts domestic law above international law, and has exercised long-arm jurisdiction and imposed economic sanctions against Russia, Iran and the DPRK, which seriously damaged the fair and just international trade environment. The US is undoing its own credibility and reputation and undermining international order by bringing the world back to the era of a lawless jungle. Just as Noam Chomsky pointed out, "We're a rogue state, the leading rogue state by a huge dimension—nobody's even close. And yet we can call for war crimes trials of others, without batting an eyelash."
The USA is so busy organising Summits, one after another, that fewer and fewer countries are interested in participating. Brazil and Mexico are rumoured to be suggesting boycotting the American Summit organised by Biden.
With these two countries having half the total population of South America, it does mean something. Whether they do so eventually is left to be seen, but by such suggestions we can deduce that the summit is becoming meaningless, like the earlier summit for Democracy that Biden organised. The days of countries flocking to bow to the USA calling is coming to a close.
US' Minuscule $150 Million Pledge to ASEAN Mocked by International Community
At the US-ASEAN Special Summit held in Washington this week, the US pledged $150 million in investment to the ASEAN, which became one of a few substantive "results" of the summit. But it has been mocked by the international public opinion, as the House passed a bill that would provide $40 billion in aid to Ukraine. And the $60 million of the total $150 million will be used to assist US partners in promoting maritime defense. Washington talks about how it wants to help ASEAN members develop clean energy, promote education and fight the pandemic, but in fact it still focuses on "security" to "counter China's influence."
ASEAN was China's largest trading partner in 2020 and 2021. In 2021, China’s trade with the ASEAN countries had touched US$878.2 billion, by far outstripping the US’ trade with ASEAN ($362 billion per last available 2021 figures.)
In November 2021, China promised to provide $1.5 billion more development aid to ASEAN members in the following three years to help the countries fight the pandemic and recover their economies. That's ten times the US' $0.15 billion pledge to ASEAN.
ASEAN countries as a whole remained cautious about the summit. Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen, made it clear that "We don't have to choose between the US and China."
In his speech in Washington, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stressed that "between independence and dependence, our choice is always independence … Between negotiation and confrontation, we choose negotiation. Between dialogue and conflict, we choose dialogue. And between peace and war, we choose peace. Between cooperation and competition, we choose cooperation."
On his part, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said, "Indonesia expects this special summit will produce a partnership that can contribute to peace, stability, and regional welfare." Not regional warfare!
The relationship between ASEAN and the US can hardly be described as "ideal." The ASEAN countries live by trade, but Washington’s obsessive focus is on security and coercive diplomacy, and the mismatch hinders the Indo-Pacific strategy from gaining traction.
In March, the US announced it would launch an investigation into alleged circumvention of duties for solar panels imported into the US from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, alleging the modules of panels might come from China and it caused shockwaves to relevant industries.
Cambodia, Indonesia and Thailand are due to host three important leaders' meetings in the Southeast Asia region later this year, said to a joint statement released by the three countries in early May. The statement suggest the meetings are "for all participating countries/economies," which, in real sense, rejected the unreasonable demands of the US and the West, which piled pressure to the three countries, to isolate Russia.
ASEAN members have been through regional wars and conflicts. They deeply know how precious peace and development is. Most ASEAN members are experienced and wise to avoid becoming the pawns in the games between super powers. Biden hopes to push the Ukraine issue with the ASEAN leaders seeking a coalition with them against Moscow. But the ASEAN countries have mixed views on Ukraine. Myanmar at one end is supporting Russia, while Singapore at the opposite end instinctively embraces Washington’s sanctions against Russia.
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