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...Negros Occidental was a well-run little police state and its Mussolini was Governor Rafael Lacson. He was, that is, until last month's election...
...insignificant figure but a courageous man, a former lieutenant in the U.S. Far East forces and later a local guerrilla leader who fought the Japanese. When election time rolled around, Padilla filed as Nacionalista candidate for mayor of Magallon, a dusty little pip on the map. Governor Lacson, a member of the Liberal Party, who liked to boast that he had 200,000 votes in his pocket, notified Padilla to clear out if he valued his health...
...through with him. The day after, Padilla was picked up and a grim procession began. His hands tied, Padilla was led from one provincial town, to another and beaten methodically while spectators were told to take a good look and see what happened to those who defied Lacson...
...moved slowly and painstakingly. He saw easygoing President Quirino and reportedly laid down an ultimatum: it was his job or Lacson's. Governor Lacson was suspended; A civil affairs team was ordered to gather evidence, piece by piece. Last week Magsaysay thought he had what he wanted. Justice Department representatives walked into the court in the provincial capital and filed charges against Governor Lacson and 25 henchmen, including three local mayors, two local chiefs of police. The charge was murder...
...Bacolod City, capital of Occidental Negros Province in the Philippines. As the voters entered the rickety, paper-covered polling booths they glanced nervously at the carbine-carrying, khaki-clad youths who lounged ominously outside; they were members of the 1,500-strong "special police" hired by provincial Governor Rafael Lacson to make sure that the election would turn out the way he wanted it. Police carried off ballot boxes to his home an hour before the polls closed; some ballots had been marked and laid away two weeks before...