Word: magsaysays
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...Huks are fighting the government mainly because they want a house and land of their own," said the Philippines' Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay. "All right, they can stop fighting, because I will give them a house and land...
...Magsaysay first started getting results during the Japanese occupation, when he organized a guerrilla force of 12,000 strong, in the mountains where he was born. Says he: "It was no joke, living in those jungles. I had to take care of myself, not only against the Japs but against my own men. For a few Japanese pesos, any one of them could "have killed me. But I treated them like men, and shared everything I had with them. As a result, they treated me like...
...them, dressed in stolen army uniforms and riding in army trucks, swooped down on Candaba, 48 miles north of Manila, seized the army post sacked the town, and shot 13 antiCommunists. Three days later, several hundred Huks attacked the busy Acoje chromite mines in mountainous Zambales province (where Magsaysay was born), killed six civilians and burned a million pesos' worth of property...
...headquarters, Magsaysay pounded the table so hard that the ashtray bounced, and barked orders: "Put more men in and around Manila. I want every suspicious person searched, and every suspicious house raided. Get every soldier in the provinces alerted. Keep pounding on all known Huk lairs. Burn the Huks out of Candaba swamps. There are 8,000 Huks in the country. That makes five Huks to each one of our platoons. Let us make this week the liquidation week...
...Behind the Battle. For the next few days, the Huks did not know what hit them. Magsaysay's army attacked them steadily all over Luzon. In the Sierra Madre, the troops caught up with the Huk band that had murdered the Hardies, killed 20. The army fell far short of Magsaysay's quota of five Huks to every platoon (it claimed a total of 300 Huks killed last week), but the Huks were beaten back. March 29, the Huk anniversary, proved to be one of the most peaceful days the Philippines had known in years. Even bitter critics...