Wednesday, May 16, 2012
16 MAY
1903 - Apolinario Mabini y Maranan, the former Prime Minister of the short-lived Philippine Republic, is buried under the auspices of civic and labor organizations during the American colonial period when the Philippine-American War (1899-1914)
was still being waged; following his capture by invading American
soldiers, Mabini refused to swear fealty to the imperialist United
States flag, causing his and other defiant compatriots' exile to Guam
in 1901, and did so only when he felt he was already very sick and
weak in the bid to be allowed to return to the Philippines; born in Talaga, Tanauan, Batangas to Dionisia Maranan and Inocencio in 1864, Mabini is regarded the "Brains" of the second phase of the Philippine Revolution and became Prime Minister of what
would be the short-lived Philippine Republic under Gen. Emilio
Aguinaldo; one of Mabini's works published posthomously is the "La Revolucion Filipina" (later translated into English, The Philippine Revolution),
his account of the first and second phases of the 1896 Himagsikan,
including how Andres Bonifacio y de Castro, the Supreme President of the
secret-society-turned-revolutionary-government Kataastaasang Kagalanggalangang Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan, was 'assassinated' on orders of Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy, describing the act as a "crime" that was the "first victory of personal ambition over true patriotism."
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