American Terrorism and Genocide of the Philippine People, 1899–1902

In 1898 the United States instigated a war with Spain for the purpose of stealing Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and the Philippines from the decrepit remains of the evil old Spanish Empire. The Caribbean islands were conquered with ease, but in the faraway Philippines the U.S. military defeated Spain only with the help of Filipino nationalist guerrillas. The Filipinos supported American forces because the U.S. government had promised independence to them.

The U.S. government lied. Of course. It’s an American tradition.

Writes Gore Vidal in his book, The American Presidency:



Once they realized they’d been had, the Phillipine people rose in revolt against American rule in February 1899. America unleashed it’s rabid military dogs on them, and 70,000 professional baby-killers (known euphemistically as American soldiers, marines and sailors), spent three years brutally crushing the rebellion. The death toll of Phillipine people was enormous, both from battle casualties and disease. An estimated 200,000 Phillipine men, women and children died horribly at the hands of racist American monsters.

Mark Twain was deeply disturbed by the sadistic war crimes committed by the evil U.S. military in a Vietnam-like genocide which lasted from 1899 to 1902. He was also disgusted with the virtually universal racism in which White Americans shamelessly wallowed throughout those benighted turn-of-the-century years. (The very years which moral Neanderthals in America even now call “The Good Old Days.”)

Twain cynically “saluted” America’s first international genocide “by suggesting that we replace the stars and stripes in our flag with the skull and crossbones.”

It remains an excellent suggestion to this day for the world’s greatest pirate nation.

In A People’s History of the United States Howard Zinn writes of American sadism during the Philippine-American war.

In November 1901, the Manila correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger reported:





In Manila, a U.S. Marine named Littletown Waller, a major, was accused of shooting eleven defenseless Filipinos, without trial, on the island of Samar. Other marine officers described his testimony:



In the province of Batangas, the secretary of the province estimated that of the population of 300,000, one third had been killed by combat, famine, or disease.

American firepower was overwhelmingly superior to anything the Filipino rebels could put together. In the very first battle, Admiral Dewey steamed up the Pasig River and fired 500-pound shells into the Filipino trenches. Dead Filipinos were piled so high that the Americans used their bodies for breastworks.

A British witness said:



Mark Twain said further of the brutal American genocide:





Thus began “The American Century”, consecrated in the blood of innocent children and civilian people.

they are so evil!!!!

I don't think Bush got to do anything with this eh...... lolz
Its kinda sad, but it happens to all nation though out history.

there was this controversy (for lack of a better term) about the americans' victory over the muslim in mindanao during the early 20th century.

the US maintains that they won the war with them because their enemies raised a white flag, which, as westerners understand, is a symbol of surrender. the muslims, on the other hand, said that the war wasn't really won by the americans. the white flag simply means that somebody died in their village, that white is used in funerals or wakes instead of black.

i also read that americans were racists towards pinoys. they had books with titles such as "monkeys have no tails in zamboanga". wow, i always wonder how people with these kind of thinking ever becomes rich. stupid=rich? mmm... in america's case, maybe.

ang sama talaga nila

Americans had atrocities to the filipino people

That was what we call "Balangiga massacre"

America should pay for those atrocities

yes, perhaps in another 200 years..

actually we can let them pay. first, we must be a self-sufficient nation and increase trade with our Asian brothers rather than european and american nations. secondly, recall all filipino human resources in the US. with the rate they are outsourcing Filipinos, by 2030 there'd be about 4 million Filipinos working as construction workers, engineers, health care servicemen, and other jobs they deem "filthy". when 4 million people will be returning to the Philippines because they can live there and find work at home, America will fall.

That is so sad, I had no idea something like this happened. By the accounts of the history books they have here in the states the US liberated the Philippines from spain. This makes me wonder more that if becoming an filipino citizen again is an good idea.

i hope this forumwalker is right.

how about dual citizenship? well, being an american certainly has its privileges.

american history books of course portray the american as the liberator of the philippines. the philippines already had a republic under aguinaldo but the americans just refused to acknowledge its existence.

they also reasoned that our country still doesn't know how to run the government, etc so they stayed instead of just "liberating" us from the japanese.

Don't you have to be under 18 to get dual citizenship?

When, america will be called to pay for her debt, allow me to be the collector! hihihi... The first one i'll visit will be P!GMA... speaking of the treachery of America, guess who feels so disillusioned by them? Imelda no less!

how did i know this thread is from our very friendly chum osirak

indeed, it is true what some have observed, the philippine's is america's b!tch!

Damn man, you really must hate your Filipino Blood, How about your Afrikan black blood? Do you luv it more? why?

Seems like Dalawapo is America's b!tch. You shouldn't be talking about the Philippines being anybodys b!tch when Guam is still an territory of the US.
Maybe thats why they chose to go back to their native ways. So they can entertain their white tourists/masters.

The wall of fire. Part of the firing line near Pasig, March 15, 1899. It represents volley-firing in clock-like order at the insurgent intrenchments. The picture was taken just before the general advance."



"The american troops are here entering the public square of Malolos. The church has just been set on fire by the retreating insurgents, ans was burned down nonwithstanding the efforts of the soldiers to save it."



"This is an army supply train en route to Malolos. The wagons are hauled by a species of buffalo peculiar to the Philippines. It is a patient animal somewhat livelier than the American ox. It does the hard labor of the islands."

The Philippine-American War is a misnomer because it never was a War of Conquest but a War of Genocide. The war was fought based on the white supremacist doctrine called Manifest Destiny. Most of the U.S. Army Generals who fought in the war were veterans of the Indian Wars in the U.S. The U.S. Congress did not even consider the Philippines to be country but as a territory in the same way that the Indian lands were treated in the U.S. That's why the U.S. didn't accept the Declaration of Independence nor did it recognize the First Philippine Republic.