GEC12: Reading in Philippine History
GEC12: Reading in Philippine History
GEC12: Reading in Philippine History
I LI P P I N E I N D E P E N D E N C E
PH PREPARED BY: GROUP 3
BORJAL, JEROME REPTIN
ENS
BILOG, NICKA ANGELA TAL
TONE
CARIN, CLARRISE JOY PAN
YANE
ESCARTIN, MARIBEL ESTA
FABIALA, DAISY MAQUINA
FERANDO, SHEILA JUAN
DERLA, PAULITA HAGAD
•“…TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION, THAT THEIR HABITANTS BEING ALREADY WEARY OF
BEARING THE OMINOUS YOKE OF SPANISH DOMINATION, ON ACCOUNT OF THE ARBITRARY
ARRESTS AND HARSH TREATMENT PRACTICED BY THE CIVIL GUARD TO THE EXTENT OF
CAUSING DEATH WITH THE CONNIVANCE AND EVEN WITH THE EXPRESS ORDERS OF THEIR
COMMANDERS, WHO SOMETIMES WENT TO THE EXTREME OF ORDERING THE SHOOTING OF
PRISONERS UNDER THE PRETEXT THAT THEY WERE ATTEMPTING TO ESCAPE, IN VIOLATION OF
THE PROVISIONS OF THE REGULATIONS OF THEIR CORPS, WHICH ABUSES WERE UNPUNISHED
AND ON ACCOUNT OF THE UNJUST DEPORTATIONS, ESPECIALLY THOSE DECREED BY GENERAL
BLANCO, OF EMINENT PERSONAGES AND OF HIGH SOCIAL POSITION, AT THE INSTIGATION OF
THE ARCHBISHOP AND FRIARS INTERESTED IN KEEPING THEM OUT OF THE WAY FOR THEIR
OWN SELFISH AND AVARICIOUS PURPOSES, DEPORTATIONS WHICH ARE QUICKLY BROUGHT
ABOUT BY A METHOD OF PROCEDURE MORE EXECRABLE THAN THAT OF THE INQUISITION
AND WHICH EVERY CIVILIZED NATION REJECTS ON ACCOUNT OF A DECISION BEING
RENDERED WITHOUT A HEARING OF THE PERSONS ACCUSED.”
THE DOCUMENT SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED ABUSES AND
INEQUALITIES IN THE COLONY.
THE REASON BEHIND THE SABOTAGE AND INJURIES AGAINST UNJUST DEPORTATION WITHOUT
REVOLUTION AGAINST SPAIN DULY CONSTITUTED, ARBITRARY PROPER HEARING AND THE
WHICH INCLUDES THE ABUSE OF ARREST UNEQUAL PROTECTION GREED OF THE CLERGY LIKE THE
THE CIVIL GUARD ACT OF OF THE LAW FRIARS AND ARCHBISHOP
VIOLENCE, UNLAWFUL SHOOTING
OF PRISONERS
“In the town of Cavite Viejo, in this province of Cavite,
on the twelfth day of June eighteen hundred and ninety-
eight, before me, Don Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista,
Auditor of War and Special Commissioner appointed to
proclaim and solemnize this act by the Dictatoriaal
Government of these Philippine Islands, for the
purposes and by virtue of the circular addressed by the
Eminent Dictator of the same Don Emilio Aguinaldo y
Famy.”
DON EMILO AGUINALDO
PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION
PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE
• FIAR ABUSE
• RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
• INEQUALITY
HOWEVER, NO MENTION WAS MADE ABOUT THE MORE SERIOUS PROBLEMS THAT AFFECTED THE
MASSES MORE PROFOUNDLY.