Word: hukbong
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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Those who failed to follow that route often found themselves siding with a new force in Philippine politics: the Huks. Originally known as the Hukbong bayan laban sa Hapon (People's Army Against Japan), the Huks turned quickly to the Communist antidemocratic guerrilla warfare that their brothers in China and Indo-China were fostering. By the late 1940s, the Huk menace was massive: it claimed 14,000 fighting men under arms, and controlled by terror and taxation some 4,000,000 Filipino peasants, mainly in central Luzon. President Roxas, who died in office of a heart attack, was succeeded...
...more than 60 the number of mayors, village officials and ordinary law-abiding citizens who in recent months have died by the terrorist's bullet. The statistic underscores the problem that has risen to plague the seven-month-old regime of President Ferdinand Marcos: the resurgence of the Hukbong Magpapalaya sa Bayan,* the backwoods Communist guerrillas known as Huks...
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