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Kumander Sisa – Hukbalahap Anti-Japanese Guerrillas’ Top Woman Leader in WWII
When the Japanese Army invaded the Philippines, Don Pedro instructed Luis Taruc to organize guerrilla resistance. Agapito moved his family to the Abad Santos residence in Manila after the bombing of Clark Air Field. He and Pedro were arrested shortly after by the Japanese army and thrown in jail in Fort Santiago. Don Pedro was later put in solitary confinement while Agapito remained in captivity. Agapito wrote short love letters to Feleng that were smuggled in food containers that their year old son, Pastor, brought him. Pastor was the only one in the family allowed to visit. Feleng and her other children could only watch from afar the iron bars of her husband’s prison cell in Fort Santiago. Here is an excerpt from one of several letters that Feleng kept through the years:
(In Kapampangan) “Darling cu: E nacu taganang sumulat. E mu rugu daraptan ing eca macatadua sumulat uling ilang panaplac cun • When the war broke out, establishments and schools closed, and majority of the people lost their jobs. Women, especially, were forced to find food and other resources outside the home. Many of them engaged in buying and selling various items like jewelry, cloth, or food such as dried fish, fruits, and vegetables. Meanwhile, in its campaign for the creation of a Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japan encouraged the civilian population, including women, to give what they could in building what they called a "New Philippines." Japanese-run magazines were filled with articles on how women can contribute to the economy bygd assuming both traditional tasks (cooking, sewing) and jobs that were not traditionally taken on by women (bus driving). With food getting scarce in the cities, many families went to the provinces where they survived on farming and fishing, producing food not only for themselves but also for the Japanese soldiers who sequestered the count • – Philippine communist guerrilla movement The Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon (lit.&#;'People's Army Against The Japanese'), better known by the acronym Hukbalahap, was a Filipino communistguerrilla movement formed by the farmers of Central Luzon. They were originally formed to fight the Japanese, but extended their fight into a rebellion against the Philippine government, known as the Hukbalahap rebellion in It was eventually put down through a series of reforms and military victories by Defense Secretary, and later President, Ramon Magsaysay.[2] A monument dedicated to the Huks[clarification needed] in Cabiao, Nueva Ecija, was constructed to honor their actions during World War II.[3] On October 14, , the Luis M. Taruc Hukbalahap Monument at Garden of Peace Memorial Park in Santa Monica, San Luis, Pampanga, was unveiled to honor about guerrilla fighters (including Luis Taruc, the late Antonio Sumang and year-old Praxedes Clarin, in
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