Philippines

Water Cure Torture Scandal - Senate Investigation Exposes Systematic Abuse

1902-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

The Senate Committee on the Philippines embarks on a highly publicized investigation into “Affairs in the Philippine Islands” after letters from ordinary American soldiers in the Philippines surface in hometown newspapers containing graphic accounts of torture and atrocities. At the …

Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft Senate Committee on the Philippines Anti-imperialist Senators U.S. Army soldiers +1 more imperialism torture war-crimes accountability-crisis philippines +1 more

Balangiga Massacre Triggers Samar Pacification - Scorched Earth Retaliation

1901-09-28 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Filipino resistance fighters in Balangiga, Samar conduct a surprise attack on Company C of the U.S. 9th Infantry Regiment, killing 54 American soldiers in what becomes described as the “worst defeat of United States Army soldiers since the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.” The …

Jacob H. Smith Littleton Waller Adna Chaffee Theodore Roosevelt Filipino civilians +1 more imperialism war-crimes military-atrocities philippines counterinsurgency +1 more