Word: abay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people in the countryside. In this sense, the Huk war is a struggle for the confidence of thousands of peasants and rural workers who in their underpaid, underprivileged past have never been given much reason for confidence. Who is winning this struggle now? Maybe a certain Colonel Abay knows a little of the answer. And the men of Bamban in Tarlac, and a peasant boy of Nueva Ecija-maybe they know a little. Let them speak...
...Night, Look Out." Colonel Eustaquire Abay (rhymes with buy) is deputy commander of the Second Military Area, which includes the entire region south of Manila. He is displayed as an example and spokesman of the new order which started when the ground forces took over the "pacification campaign." Things are better, he says. Many people in troubled Batangas province, who had been afraid to live in their barrios (villages), and who fled to the relative safety of the towns, are moving back to their old homes. The roads are safe. In this area the Huks are weaker, much weaker, than...
...Colonel Abay's young intelligence officer, Captain Herman Sevillia, tells with great earnestness of new efforts to win the people's trust. It is a matter of convincing them that the army can protect them. "Then the people talk to us," the captain says. "They tell us their troubles. If we do not have the aid of the people, we do not know which ones to shoot...