#OTD in 1901

Sept 29: The United States Navy Bombed Balangiga
Context: After the very mis-named #BalangigaMassacre, the United States Military felt justified in trying to destroy the entire village where they had enslaved one-hundred-forty-nine men.
#PhilippineIslands
#AmericanHIstory

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To review, he said this AFTER two very rapey, drunken soldiers go their asses kicked for threatening to abduct a woman from a village and 149 adult males were enslaved for it. The ego on this fuck!
#BalangigaMassacre
#PhilippineIslands
ugly #AmericanHistory

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General Adna R. Chaffee believed (because he was a racist) the revolt proved his tactics were necessary rather than recognizing them as the impetus of the violence.
#BalangigaMassacre
#PhilippineIslands
ugly #AmericanHistory

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The captives’ living conditions were inhumane and degrading. When they’d had enough and retaliated for the abuses (with the help of an actual insurgent) they killed (and rightly so) forty-eight American occupying soldiers.
#BalangigaMassacre
#PhilippineIslands
ugly #AmericanHistory

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#OTD in #Hisotry 1901

September 28: The (Mis-named) #BalangigaMassacre
Context: 149 Samareños, who had been detained and forced into hard labor in Balangiga after two American soldiers were beaten to a pulp for threatening to abduct a woman from the village.
#PhilippineIslands
#AmericanHistory

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The primary SOURCE for this post was the book, 'Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire' by Jonathan M. Katz
#BalangigaMassacre
#PhilippineIslands
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit

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