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Reaction paper

By: jekko Araojo

To: Mr. Rubio

Macario Sakay was a leutenant of KKK which means KATAAS-TAASAN KAGALANG-GALANGANG KATIPUNAN NG BAYAN he was captured by American soldiers and given by amnesty for exchange that he will convince his allies to surrender and accepting that United State is a friend of Philippines in front of the Filipinos and americans. He tried to refuse but his commander surrendered to the americans.

After a several days he got back on his home without worriying to encountered and shoot by their enemy. He sat under the tree in the front of his house and he and his father had a conversation about their revolution against the colonizer.

His father making him to realize that their sacrifizing is worth it because their goal is for all Filipino and to our own land, and not for personal interest. Then sakay build his own army who will fight against American troops and he also wrote their own law contained their goals and mission.

Their financial needs is supported by some officials and by the help of some people on the near villages. But in the end the people on the villages captured by the american soldiers and forbid them to be back in their village until sakay surrender.

Sakay was a Filipino general in the Philippine revolution against spain and Filipino-American war from late 1870’s to September 13, 1907. he continued resistance against the United States following the official American declaration of the Philippine-American War's end in 1902 and in the following year he became president of the Tagalog Republic.

His surrender was made to be a prerequisite for a state of peace that would supposedly ensure the election of Filipino delegates to the Philippine Assembly. Sakay believed that the struggle has shifted to constitutional means, with the Assembly as means to winning independence.

A Filipino labor leader named gomez, was authorized in 1905 by Governor General Henry to negotiate for the surrender of Sakay and his allies. Gomez met with Sakay at his camp and argued that the establishment of a national assembly was being held up by Sakay's intransigence, and establishment would be the first step toward the independence of the filipino’s. Sakay agreed to end his resistance on conditions that his men must be granted of amnesty, that they be permitted to carry firearms, and that he and his officers be permitted to leave the country. Gomez assured Sakay that these conditions would be acceptable to the Americans, General Leon Villafuerte, obtained agreement to them from the American Governor-General. Sakay and Villafuerte traveled to Manila, where they were welcomed and invited to receptions and banquets. One Constabulary Chief, Col. Harry H. Bandholtz. That invitation was a colonial trap and Sakay and his principal lieutenants were disarmed and arrested while the party was in progress. And sakay was accused as baldelerismo. In the end sakay was been recorded a hero who fight for the sake of our country
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