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The Balangiga massacre was an incident in which the residents of the town of Balangiga on the island of Samar conducted a surprise attack on an occupying unit of the US 9th Infantry, killing 54. [7] [8] [9] The incident is also known as the Balangiga encounter, Balangiga incident, [10] or Balangiga conflict. [3]
General Jacob Hurd Smith (January 29, 1840 – March 1, 1918) was a U.S. Army officer notorious for ordering indiscriminate retaliation on the island of Samar in response to what is called the Balangiga massacre during the Philippine–American War.
This movie shows, in the eyes of an eight-year-old, the tragedy that occurred in the days of 1901 when the Americans were supposed to identify with the Balangiga and other parts of Samar, including the events following the brutal massacre of several Samarnon and how they fled elsewhere to the neighboring island.
Over the next year, American soldiers exacted terrible revenge on all the inhabitants of Samar. They killed and imprisoned masses, burned towns, and turned the island into a wasteland.
The Balangiga Massacre is the name given to an incident in the town of Balangiga at Samar Island during which 48 American soldiers were killed. However, the American army later responded by severe measures and killed an unknown number of Filipino civilians on the island as a punishment.
In the morning of Saturday, September 28, 1901, hundreds of native fighters mostly armed with bolos staged a successful surprise attack on U.S. troops who were mostly eating or lining up for breakfast in their garrison in Balangiga town, at the southern coast of Samar Island.
On 18 September, 400 guerrillas sent by Lukbán to carry out sanctions upon the town officials arrived in Balangiga. The threat was defused by Captain Eugenio Daza, a member of Lukbán’s staff, and by the parish priest, Father Donato Guimbaolibot.
