Word: tarlac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...particularly in four provinces. Says Senator Manuel P. Manahan, chairman of the Philippine Senate's National Defense and Security Committee: "The Huks have established an in visible government in Pampanga [north of Manila], in western sections of Bula-can and in the southern fringes of Nueva Eciha and Tarlac. They have entrenched themselves in four vital activities: Huk taxation, Huk justice, Huk business and Huk politics...
When Ileto took over, no fugitive on the wanted list was considered more dangerous than "Commander Oscar," the pseudonym for Ricardo Ignacio, a shadowy gunman who was Huk chief tain in six towns in Pampanga and Tarlac provinces and also one of the Huks' most feared "enforcers." The government credited Oscar with at least 25 assassinations and abductions in recent months; Oscar himself openly bragged that he had led the ambush that killed the Huk-fighting mayor of Candaba last July...