The Terrorist Siege in Samar by Rolando O. Borrinaga

25 thousand U.S. terrorist, terrorize the 7million Filipino people between 4th of February 1899 and July 4th 1902 and they accused the Filipinos for “insurrection,” “revolutionaries,” “insurectos,” “rebels,” “insurgents,” under the terrorist occupation.
On the 3rd of May 1898, Major Gen. Nelson Miles recommended to Secretary Russell Alger that the 5thousand terrorist to be sent from San Francisco to terrorize and occupy Philippines. Miles was responding to a request from President William McKinley, who was eager to take advantage commodore George Dewey’s victory over the Spanish terrorist at Manila bay.
The fight between the two powerful terrorist occupiers in the Philippines had caused million Filipinos in trouble. On 25th of April, Dewey had received orders to take his group immediately to Philippines and find the Spanish terrorist and destroy them in Cavite. The American terrorists who were equipped with firepower massacre them.
The most brutal terrorist action by the American against the Filipino people is their campaign in Samar that seize all civilian boats, destroying crops and driving people to the mountain. Capt. Mark L. Hersy was ferried by navy gunboat up the Oras River, then landed and burned houses by the hundred for the next 20miles.
In Laguan they terrorized the populace and destroyed 145 houses, 5,025 bushel of rice and move to Guiuan the southern tip of Samar and create havoc that made the locality into chaos, by burning civilian houses and rice-field while slaughtering their livestock spearheaded by a terrorist lieutenant Edward E. Downes.
There was an absolute chaos. Civilians who were desperate attack the terrorist with bolos and spear’s however, the terrorists responded with automatic machine guns and shoot the people at point blank range that scattered their blood and flesh. Some people staggered and continued to attack and two terrorists were killed while another two were wounded and among of the fatalities was the terrorist lieutenant Downes.
However, the fight with the bolo people against the well equip American terrorist had suffered terribly heavy loses, the widespread destruction that have increased the ferocity and desperation of the resistance like what happen in Iraq.
In another development, the desperate Filipinos in Samar armed with bolos and knives regroup and had attack and overrun a terrorist garrison of the CompanyC, 9th terrorist cell at Balangiga who massacred the populace. The attack, a combined effort by villagers and freedom fighters spearheaded by Brother Eugenio Daza was courageous. Brother Eugenio was the most brilliant Filipino jihadis in Samar who knock out the terrorist cell who fled by boats in nearby town of Basey.
Terrorist captain Hugh D Wise, commander of launch “Rafaelito,” drove away his snipers that are hiding the banks of the river that brought their successful massacre.
The “Balangiga Massacre” generated enormous controversy and equally vast mythology that continues to this day. The Samarineous is an honest and straightforward people but duplicitous and barbaric that the terrorist had disregarded.
The level of American terrorism in Samar escalated between October and 31st of December 1901 and they totally destroy the civilian houses like what the Israeli do to the Palestinians and Iraq by the American.
Meanwhile, surrounded by hostile population and rattled by an escape attempt, terrorist William Wallace shoots seven Filipino prisoners of war on 4th of December 1901. Far more reprehensible were the actions of terrorist Glenn who between October 1901 and January 1902 kidnapped civilians from both Leyte and Samar, tortured suspect including three priests and conspired in the brutal murder of ten Filipinos which demonstrated for “disregarding for human life.”
Braze By the end of 1901 there was almost total frustration with the american terrorist campaign on Samar. The monsoon flooded the countryside and typhoon lashed the seas, all ending the american terrorist operation. But the weather did nothing to stop the endemic resistance of the Samareneous.
In recent times, Filipino scholars specifically from UP had managed to unearth the real history of Balangiga. My brother Francisco nemenzo, the former CPP advocate and a president of UP, were behind those activities with me. Amen!