12 januari – 30 januari 2018
Äntligen Filippinerna igen. Sjunde resan hit. Sju år sedan sist. Sju är vi som reser.
Risfält på Bohol
Habal-habal, Valencia, Bohol
Stranden nära Villa Tarcela, Valencia, Bohol
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A very brief history
1521
Ferdinand Magellan arrives to the Philippines
1565-1898
Spanish colonial period
1896
Start of The Filipino Revolution against the Spanish rule
May 1 1898
US forces arrive to the Philippines defeating the Spanish squadron in Manila (one of many battles in the ongoing Spanish-American war)
June 12 1898
Aguinaldo declares the independence of the Philippines
August 13 1898
The battle in Manila Bay finally ended the Spanish rule in the Philippines
1898-1899
After the victory over the Spanish America did not recognize the Filipino claim for independence. America now aimed for turning the Philippines into an American colony.
1899-1902
America fights a colonial war against the Philippines. The number of Filipino casualties is being estimated to approximately 1 million.
General Jacob H. Smith said:
”I want no prisoners. I wish you to kill and burn, the more you kill and burn the better it will please me. I want all persons killed who are capable of bearing arms in actual hostilities against the United States”
A British witness said:
“This is not war; it is simply massacre and murderous butchery.”
The imperialistic American war on the Philippines was for a long time hidden from The Filipinos.
Renato Constantino (Filipino historian):
With American textbooks, Filipinos began learning not only a new language but a new culture. Education became miseducation because it began to de-Filipinize the youth, taught them to look up to American heroes, to regard American culture as superior to theirs..//..these textbooks gave them a good dose of American history while distorting, or at least ignoring, their own”.
1946
The Philippines was recognized by the UN as an independent country but stayed as a close ally to the US.
June 30 2016
Rodrigo Roa Duterte is elected president of the Philippines. He is the first president trying to move the country to a more independent position between the US, China and Russia.
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