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    This case involves Pedro Manayao who was charged with treason for aiding Japanese soldiers and members of the Makapili in killing residents of Barrio Banaban, Bulacan during World War II. The court ruled that Manayao did not lose his Filipino citizenship and was not guilty of treason. There was no evidence that Manayao subscribed to an oath of allegiance to Japan or accepted a commission in the Japanese military. Simply helping Japan in the war by joining the Makapili did not necessarily require swearing allegiance to Japan's constitution and laws. As such, Manayao did not meet the legal requirements to lose his Filipino citizenship or be found guilty of treason.

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    This case involves Pedro Manayao who was charged with treason for aiding Japanese soldiers and members of the Makapili in killing residents of Barrio Banaban, Bulacan during World War II. The court ruled that Manayao did not lose his Filipino citizenship and was not guilty of treason. There was no evidence that Manayao subscribed to an oath of allegiance to Japan or accepted a commission in the Japanese military. Simply helping Japan in the war by joining the Makapili did not necessarily require swearing allegiance to Japan's constitution and laws. As such, Manayao did not meet the legal requirements to lose his Filipino citizenship or be found guilty of treason.

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    This case involves Pedro Manayao who was charged with treason for aiding Japanese soldiers and members of the Makapili in killing residents of Barrio Banaban, Bulacan during World War II. The court ruled that Manayao did not lose his Filipino citizenship and was not guilty of treason. There was no evidence that Manayao subscribed to an oath of allegiance to Japan or accepted a commission in the Japanese military. Simply helping Japan in the war by joining the Makapili did not necessarily require swearing allegiance to Japan's constitution and laws. As such, Manayao did not meet the legal requirements to lose his Filipino citizenship or be found guilty of treason.

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    Subject: Criminal Law II

    Topic: Title One (Crimes Against National Security and the Law of the Nations)

    People vs Manayao

    GR No. L-322

    Facts:

    Appellant Pedro Manayao and Filomeno Flores and Raymundo Flores were charged with the high
    crime of treason with multiple murder in the People's Court. The Floreses not having been
    apprehended, only Manayao was tried. Convicted of the offense charged against him with the
    aggravating circumstances of (1) the aid of armed men and (2) the employment or presence of a band
    in the commission of the crime, he was sentenced to death, to pay a fine of P20,000, an indemnity of
    P2,000 to the heirs of each of the persons named in the third paragraph of the decision, and the costs.
    He has appealed from that decision to this Court.

    On the 27th day of January 1945, Japanese soldiers and a number of Filipinos affiliated with the
    Makapili conceived a diabolical idea of killing the residents of barrio Banaban of Angat, Province of
    Bulacan. Pursuant to the plan, Japanese soldiers and their Filipino companions armed with rifles and
    bayonets butchered all the residents of the town who assembled behind the barrio chapel and
    burned their houses.

    Appellant alone killed about six women. Appellant would also have killed the small children.

    Issues and Ruling:

    Did Manayao lose his Filipino citizenship by owing allegiance to the Japanese and is he guilty of
    treason?

    There is no evidence that appellant has subscribed to an oath of allegiance to support the constitution
    or laws of Japan. His counsel cites (Brief, 4) the fact that in Exhibit A "he subscribed an oath before he
    was admitted into the Makapili association, "the aim of which was to help Japan in its fight against
    the Americans and her allies.'" And the counsel contends from this that the oath was in fact one of
    allegiance to support the constitution and laws of Japan. We cannot uphold such a far-fetched
    deduction. The members of the Makapili could have sworn to help Japan in the war without
    necessarily swearing to support her constitution and laws. The famed "Flying Tiger" who so bravely
    and resolutely aided China in her war with Japan certainly did not need to swear to support the
    Chinese constitution and laws, even if they had to help China fight Japan. During the first World War
    the "National Volunteers" were organized in the Philippines, pledged to go to Europe and fight on the
    side of the Allies, particularly of the United States. In order to carry out that mission — although the
    war ended before this could be done — they surely did not have to take an oath to support the
    constitution or laws of the United States or any of its allies. We do not multiply these examples, for
    they illustrate a proposition which seems self-evident.

    Neither is there any showing of the acceptance by appellant of a commission "in the military, naval, or
    air service" of Japan.

    Much less is there a scintilla of evidence that appellant had ever been declared a deserter in the
    Philippine Army, Navy or Air Corps — nor even that he was a member of said Army, Navy, or Air
    Corps.

    Relevant Laws Applicable:

    . . . A Filipino citizen may lose his citizenship in any of the following ways and/or events:

    xxx xxx xxx

    (3) By subscribing to an oath of allegiance to support the constitution or laws of a foreign country
    upon attaining twenty-one years of age or more;

    (4) By accepting commission in the military, naval or air service of a foreign country;

    xxx xxx xxx

    (6) By having been declared, by competent authority, a deserter of the Philippine Army, Navy, or Air
    Corps in time of war, unless subsequently a plenary pardon or amnesty has been granted.

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