Bud Dajo: Americans, Filipinos, and Moros

The Explainer: Manuel L. Quezon III

<div class='embed-wrap'><figure data-feedback='fb:likes,fb:comments'><img src='http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/lifestyle/9/13/img1-opinion-091316.jpg' ><figcaption><div class='embed-desc'>Above photo of the aftermath of the Battle of Bud Dajo is from morolandhistory.com, which says, “On January 25, 1907, almost eleven months after the battle, a cropped, black and white copy of the above photograph accompanied an editorial that appeared in the Johnstown (Pennsylvania) Weekly Democrat. 3,000 copies of the article were immediately reprinted by the Anti Imperialist League and mailed out to the press. The above print is from the National Archives and was taken from the original glass plates. The photograph was taken at one of the infamous two trenches at the top of the East Trail. The grim-faced soldiers are from Company B (khaki shirts) of the 6th Infantry and Company D of the 19th Infantry (dark blue shirts). Their leader, Captain Wetherill, stands on the far left (however cropped out of the photo in the newspaper). However by then media interest and public anger had dissipated and attempts to revive the outrage failed.”</div></figcaption></figure></div><p>The battle took place on March 5-8, 1906, and soon after on March 12, <a href='http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/clemensmoromassacre.html' target='_blank'>Mark Twain penned a fiercely sarcastic denunciation of what took place</a>:</p>

<figure class='op-interactive'><iframe allowfullscreen='' frameborder='0' height='350' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/hW5Z48CQdls?rel=0&showinfo=0' width='510'></iframe></figure><p>LAST Monday, <a href='http://k2.abs-cbnnews.com/news/09/12/16/duterte-us-forces-in-mindanao-must-go' target='_blank'>President Rodrigo Duterte showed a set of photos, including this picture</a>, to the audience attending a mass oath-taking before the chief executive in Malacañan Palace. It is the story of this battle, the Battle of Bud Dajo,–a massacre, in blunt terms—that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has brought up time and again, locally and internationally, as the foundation of his argument that the Philippines ought to chart a different course with regards to Philippine-American relations.</p>

<p>LAST Monday, President Rodrigo Duterte showed a set of photos to the audience attending a mass oath-taking before the chief executive in Malacañan Palace. It is the story of the Battle of Bud Dajo,–a massacre, in blunt terms—that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has brought up time and again, locally and internationally, as the foundation of his argument that the Philippines ought to chart a different course with regards to Philippine-American relations.</p>

LAST Monday, President Rodrigo Duterte showed a set of photos to the audience attending a mass oath-taking before the chief executive in Malacañan Palace. It is the story of the Battle of Bud Dajo,–a massacre, in blunt terms—that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has brought up time and again, locally and internationally, as the foundation of his argument that the Philippines ought to chart a different course with regards to Philippine-American relations.

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Bud Dajo: Americans, Filipinos, and Moros

Bud Dajo: Americans, Filipinos, and Moros