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	A hunger for history: a study of Ma-Yi Theater Group's
		By listening to little-known nationalist verses recited in the original language, Tagalog, and by being surprised by some pro-American sentiments articulated by Balangiga residents, the play's audiences are made to understand the complexity of colonial rule and the contradictory feelings of resentment and desire of the colonized people for the colonizer.
		MATTHEW: Balangiga is today considered the worst single defeat of the U.S. pacification campaign in the Philippines, and one of the worst defeats in U.S. military history.
		When "Bayan Ko" was woven into the text of Project: Balangiga, the song's tone of lament provided a contrast to the cold facts of historical documents, thus shifting the focus from data, logic, and reason to emotions of grief and anger.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-117864544.html (5518 words)

	Balangiga massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The "Balangiga massacre" was an incident in 1901 during the Philippine-American War where many American soldiers were killed in an guerilla ambush by Filipinos in the town of Balangiga on Samar island.
		Demands for the return of the bells of the church at Balangiga, taken by Americans as war booty and now collectively known as the Balangiga Bells, remain an outstanding issue of contention related to the war.
		To this day, one church bell is in the possession of the 9th U.S. Infantry Regiment at their base in South Korea, and two others remain on a former base of the 11th U.S. Infantry Regiment at Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balangiga_Massacre (1390 words)

	PinoyOnBoard.com - The Balangiga bells \| Ricky Rillera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the 1950's, the return of the Balangiga Bells to the Philippines was a subject of negotiations between the U.S. and Philippine governments.
		And the Church of the Parish in Balangiga is actively pursuing the return of the bells because of the bell's centuries old cultural and historical importance to the town people, and the important role the bells played in the parish.
		The Balangiga Bells are church artefacts -- it was then and they still are -- that should have not been removed from the premises of the Church.
	www.pinoyonboard.com /2003/0106_balangiga.html (593 words)

	Balangiga, Eastern Samar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Balangiga is a 5th class municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, Philippines.
		The municipality is the site of the Balangiga Attack which triggered the Balangiga Massacre.
		This incident during the Philippine-American War remains one of the longest-running and most controversial issues between the Philippines and the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balangiga,_Eastern_Samar (98 words)

	Balangiga Bells
		Historians considered the battle of Balangiga as the bloodiest chapter of the American Army in the Philippines.
		noticeable in Balangiga that the window of the church belfry facing the town plaza and municipal hall is without the bells.
		Balangiga, Eastern Samar and was annihilated by the Filipino patriots.
	catbalogan.com /Balangiga.html (2557 words)

	Balangiga yearns ... - Sept. 28, 2002
		BALANGIGA, Eastern Samar-Hope still runs high among residents of this town that the church bells taken from the belfry here by American soldiers 101 years ago will be returned on time.
		The diocese has embarked on a separate effort to convince the Cheyenne Diocese that the bells are the property of the Balangiga church and thus could not be taken as spoils of war.
		The Balangiga foundation--composed of direct descendants of the men who fought on that fateful morning--hopes the appeal before the United Nations will give the town and the Philippines a better chance of getting back the bells.
	www.inq7.net /gbl/2002/sep/28/text/gbl_2-1-p.htm (749 words)

	Bulatlat.com
		The controversy surrounding the bells of Balangiga traces its roots to the war between American soldiers and Filipino guerrillas in this town in 1901-02.
		The U.S., which had intervened in the Philippine war against Spanish colonialism a few years back ostensibly to help the Filipino people secure their liberty, was then waging a war of occupation in the Philippines.
		The Balangiga incident of Sept. 28 led to calls for vengeance among the American public.
	www.bulatlat.com /news/3-34/3-34-balangiga.html (805 words)

	Balangiga rings bells in austere times - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"Balangiga Encounter" refers to the local event in the morning of Saturday, Sept. 28, 1901, when some 500 native fighters mostly armed with bolos staged a successful attack on soldiers of Company C. 9th US Infantry Regiment, who were mostly eating or lining up for breakfast in their garrison in the town.
		But two recently published books about the Balangiga event had established that that attack had begun when a bell was rung as signal for the hidden reinforcements to join the attack on the garrison.
		All US officials directly involved in the Balangiga issue on both sides of the Pacific, including US Army senior leaders and diplomats, have also been one in saying, although quietly, that their government knows that the right, legal and ethical course of action is to return the bells to their rightful place-that is, in Balangiga.
	beta.inq7.net /regions/index.php?index=1&story_id=13557 (1167 words)

	Hang The Dogs: The True Tragic History of the Balangiga Massacre
		He will portray, with unassailable proof, as he did on Balangiga, that those stripping the dogs naked, whether in a prison or elsewhere in high places of government are themselves dogs, and more.
		The road to Balangiga (to Catubig, Quinapundan, and elsewhere) in Samar was laid, the trap for disaster set.
		That the author of Hang The Dogs pays attention with reasonable details to the preparation of the local populace and assiduously portrays the awry of the fighting should settle the question many had posed on whether the Americans were justified in their unmeasured revenge, the wanton killing and the razing of Samar that followed.
	www.samarnews.net /gugma/articles/article8.htm (1975 words)

	[TMP] Polls: Should U.S. Return the Balangiga Bells?
		The U.S. responded with a campaign to pacify Samar island, and the church bells of Balangiga (and other church bells in the region) were taken as trophies of war.
		Several Balangiga bells are currently on display at Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
		The actual church bell from Balangiga, however, is believed to be at a U.S. base in Korea.
	theminiaturespage.com /polls/362306487 (306 words)

	The Balangiga Massacre
		In August 1901, Balangiga was a small seaside village of 200 nipa houses in Samar, Visayas.
		The US Army 9th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. army was sent to the town to establish a garrison and assist in the pacification of the Visayan Islands.
		At 6:30 a.m., the bells of Balangiga were rung, signaling the attack of 400 men led by the highest town official.
	opmanong.ssc.hawaii.edu /filipino/balangiga.html (252 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		The Americans arrived in Balangiga as part of their drive to control the archipelago; they turned the town hall into barracks and the convent into officers' quarters.
		The Balangiga attack was certainly the American military's worst defeat during the pacification of the Philippines.
		"Balangiga is a sad incident in Philippine-American relations," says Laura del Rosario, an official at the Philippine embassy in Washington.
	www.pathfinder.com /Asiaweek/98/0109/nat7.html (760 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		The Americans arrived in Balangiga as part of their drive to control the archipelago; they turned the town hall into barracks and the convent into officers' quarters.
		The Balangiga attack was certainly the American military's worst defeat during the pacification of the Philippines.
		"Balangiga is a sad incident in Philippine-American relations," says Laura del Rosario, an official at the Philippine embassy in Washington.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/98/0109/nat7.html (760 words)

	Balangiga massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Balangiga Bells, remain an outstanding issue of contention related to the war.
		Philippine Insurrection", Company C, United States 9th Infantry arrived in Balangiga, the third largest town on the southern coast of Samar island, to close its port and prevent supplies reaching Filipino forces in the interior.
		With some of them disguised as women, the townspeople surprised the garrison while they were at breakfast with their firearms stacked in the municipal hall some twenty yards away.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig6/balangiga.html (1247 words)

	Asian Journal Online
		The officially called "Balangiga Encounter" refers to the local event in the morning of Saturday, Sept. 28, 1901, when some 500 native fighters mostly armed with bolos staged a successful attack on soldiers of Company C. 9th US Infantry Regiment, who were mostly eating or lining up for breakfast in their garrison in the town.
		But two recently published books about the Balangiga event had established that that attack had begun when a bell was rung as signal for the hidden reinforcements to join the attack on the garrison.
		All US officials directly involved in the Balangiga issue on both sides of the Pacific, including US Army senior leaders and diplomats, have also been one in saying, although quietly, that their government knows that the right, legal and ethical course of action is to return the bells to their rightful place-that is, in Balangiga.
	www.asianjournal.com /cgi-bin/view_info.cgi?code=00007011&category=HI (1050 words)

	Balangiga, Samar, Massacre (Philippine-American War
		They represented virtually all families of Balangiga, whose outlying villages then included the present towns of Lawaan and Giporlos, and of Quinapundan, a town served by the priest in Balangiga.
		The group’s investigation to date shows that this claim is based solely on R.O. Taylor’s “Massacre at Balangiga” by George Meyer, a Co. C survivor, in support of efforts to secure the Congreational Medal of Honor.
		The attack was carried out without the support of General Vicente Lukban either in men or material and it is the present opinion of the BRG that his direct guerilla forces played little role in the attack.
	www.filipinoamericans.net /balangiga_massacre.shtml (1975 words)

	Balangiga Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Balangiga (Sept 20, 1901), a poem by Eric Antonio.
		Balangiga is a remote coastal village in Samar where 78 US soldiers were killed in a bloody encounter with Filipino revolutionaries fighting US colonization.
		As the bells pealed, hundreds of Filipino freedom fighters poured out of the church disguised as women mourners and carrying coffins filled with bolos and attacked a company of US troops who were caught off guard as they ambled out of their quarters for breakfast.
	www.collider.bnl.gov /rudy/filipinas/balangiga.html (1022 words)

	Hang The Dogs: The True Tragic History of the Balangiga Massacre
		He will portray, with unassailable proof, as he did on Balangiga, that those stripping the dogs naked, whether in a prison or elsewhere in high places of government are themselves dogs, and more.
		The road to Balangiga (to Catubig, Quinapundan, and elsewhere) in Samar was laid, the trap for disaster set.
		That the author of Hang The Dogs pays attention with reasonable details to the preparation of the local populace and assiduously portrays the awry of the fighting should settle the question many had posed on whether the Americans were justified in their unmeasured revenge, the wanton killing and the razing of Samar that followed.
	gugma.samarnews.net /articles/article8.htm (1975 words)

	SAMAR OF '02
		More than 100 years ago, on Sept. 28, 1901, 74 American soldiers died in Balangiga at the hands of several hundred Filipino rebels, who lost 50 of their own number on the spot; when the Americans took their revenge, cutting a swath of fire and destruction across the island, many thousands more Filipinos died.
		This was the challenge and the burden Gil and I had taken on: transforming the Balangiga Encounter into a movie.
		Balangiga a century after its trademark event has a population of around 11,000, and it seems quiet, even mildly prosperous, with dust rising constantly from all the concreting being done to its streets.
	www.newsflash.org /2002/02/tl/tl001657.htm (901 words)

	AsianWeek.com: National News: For Whom the Bells Toll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The two bells of Balangiga, shown in a file photo from May 2001, at F.E. Warren Air Force Base outside Cheyenne, Wyo., signaled an attack by Filipino insurgents on occupying American troops in 1901 in the Philippines.
		The soldiers retook Balangiga and burned the village to the ground.
		It was the 9th Infantry that was attacked in Balangiga, but it was the reoccupying 11th Infantry that took the bells and the cannon home to Wyoming in 1904.
	www.asianweek.com /2001_10_05/news_bells.html (1344 words)

	Historic church of Balangiga in Eastern Samar at Cebu Living
		The attack on the soldiers in Balangiga by bolo-wielding natives–who hid in the church near the American garrison in the Balangiga plaza the night before the attack–happened on the early morning of September 28, 1901.
		The ringing of one of the Balangiga bells was the signal for the natives to attack the unprepared and clueless American soldiers who were having breakfast in the plaza where they set up their garrison.
		US General “Jake” Smith ordered the transformation of Balangiga into a “howling wilderness,” directing his men to kill anyone old enough to carry arms and to him they are old enough if they are over 10 years old.
	living.cebunetwork.com /historic-church-balangiga-eastern-samar/2006/06/02 (661 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| TOP STORIES > Balangiga bells closer to returning home
		AFTER 105 years, the bells of Balangiga can ring once again, and in the place from where they were taken by the American soldiers.
		In the explanatory note to the resolution, Filner notes that the town of Balangiga has since built a memorial to Filipinos and Americans who lost their lives in that battle.
		“The bells of Balangiga should properly serve as a symbol of friendship and cooperation and not of unfortunate misunderstanding and conflict,” he said.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2006/oct/06/yehey/top_stories/20061006top5.html (423 words)

	Online Edition: PhilippineTIME News & People Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When the Balangiga village people attacked members of the US Infantry 9th Co. C, on the night of September 28, 2001, it only meant that these battle-hardened soldiers were also vulnerable as they dropped their guards.
		Wall said she is hopeful the present American tragedy would not affect the wishes of the people of Balangiga to return at least one of the bells to their church.
		Wall said, she will be spending the Centennial of the Encounter in Balangiga with her brother Richard Adolph Gamlim and represent the Americans there.
	www.philtime-usa.com /archive/092001/balangiga4.html (661 words)

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		Along with other historical sources, these accounts tell of the plot devised by the people of Balangiga in 1901 to lure U.S. troops into their town and lull them into a sense of complacency.
		The leader of American troops in Balangiga is an earnest believer in benevolent assimilation, but his best efforts at being fair and civilized tragically fail to transform the role he plays as an agent of colonial domination.
		She explained, "It is difficult to find symbols that will do justice to genocide on such a scale." Indeed, if it takes one stage to represent the demise of 38 human beings, a thousand stages would not suffice to depict the deaths of 50,000.
	members.tripod.com /~Sandpaper/97-Dec/balangiga.html (756 words)

	The bells of Balangiga: Send them home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jacob "Jake" Smith, a Civil War veteran and commander of the U.S. forces in the region, ordered Maj. Littleton Waller, a veteran of campaigns in Egypt, Cuba and China, to return to Samar with a battalion of U.S. Marines, reinforced by U.S. troops from Company K and L of the 11th Infantry Regiment.
		After the town of Balangiga fell to U.S. troops on Oct. 18, 1901, soldiers of the 11th Infantry Regiment took the two bells of the Catholic church back to their home base at Fort Russell.
		The soldiers said they were "war booty." The bells were displayed in a brick museum, where they remain to this day with a plaque that says the bells signaled the attack.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1997/12/23/EDITORIAL6969.dtl&type=printable (1084 words)

	"The Bells of Balangiga, an article by Leonardo Y.Peroso,D.D. Bishop, Diocese of Borongan"
		In a nutshell, the Bells of Balangiga are Church bells.
		The church bells in Balangiga were reportedly used to signal a surprise attack by Filipino insurgents, many using machetes on an American garrison posted in the town.
		Among the actions taken by the American troops during the reprisals was the razing of several Catholic churches in the area and the confiscation of the Bells of Balangiga as trophies of war.
	www.livinginthephilippines.com /philculture/culture&arts/bells_of_balangiga.html (1098 words)

	Balangiga Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The event, known in history as the Balangiga Massacre, was described by the US military as its "worst single defeat" in the Philippines and among the worst defeats in its entire history.
		The Filipino victory in Balangiga was followed by a shameful episode that the US government has not yet regretted nor apologized for.
		The Balangiga Massacre is popularly associated with three church bells of varying sizes, all taken as "war trophies" and brought to the US.
	www.geocities.com /rolborr/balmas.html (485 words)

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