Word: huk
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...with Guns. In the interior of Luzon and in the back provinces of many another island the Communist-led Huk-balahaps (People's Army against Japan) were an explosive political force. The "Huks" had fought, 80,000 strong, against the Japs. By last week, still armed, they had become the heart of a loose, new peasant political party, the Democratic Alliance, and they were being loudly whooped up in the U.S. left-wing press as the hope of the Philippines...