Genocide During The Philippine-American War

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Genocide is any act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious groups including killing people of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, forcibly transferring children of the group to another group and deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. There are or were many genocides committed . The Philippine-American War should be considered genocide because there were lots of death that occurred, Destruction of homes, and tortured. The Philippine-American War was a war between the United States and Filipino revolutionaries dating from 1899 to 1902. There was lots of death that occurred during that time. In 1908, Manuel Arellano Remondo wrote in a geography about the death toll. He wrote “The population decreased due to the wars in the five-year period from 1895 to 1900, since at the start of the first insurrection, the population was estimated at 9,000,000, and at present (1908), the inhabitants of the archipelago do not exceed 8,000,000 in number.” (“The Espresso …show more content…

“…I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the philippines. we have gone to conquer, not to redeem… and so i am an anti-imperialist. i am opposed to having the [american] eagle put its talons on any other land,” Said Mark Twain. I believe he became anti-imperialist because he couldn't take it anymore. “Mark Twain was deeply disturbed by the sadistic war crimes committed by the evil U.S. military in a Vietnam-like genocide which lasted from 1899 to 1902. He was also disgusted with the virtually universal racism in which White Americans shamelessly wallowed throughout those benighted turn-of-the-century years.” (“The Espresso Stalinist.” N.p., 16 2012. Web. 10 Mar.

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