Pagpupugay
Bagong Lider-Mandirigmang Malaweg sa
Makabagong Panahon- Ka Baylon (Jose Asco)
Ni Jacinto Luna
Buong giting na nagpupugay ang sambayang Pilipino sa kagitingan ni Ka. Jose
‘Ka Baylon” Asco .
Isang magiting na mandirigmang Malaweg sa bagong panahon. Ipinagpatuloy niya
ang magiting na tradisyon ng pakikipaglaban ng mga rebolusyonaryong lider na
lumaban sa mga Kolonyalistang Kastila
tulad ni Magalat ( 1595), Magtannga ng Itawes at Ines Carinugan ng
Silangang Kaitawisan. Nasawi si ka Baylon habang lumalaban sa pusod ng Kaitawisan sa
Piat, Cagayan. Siya at ang at apat pang mga mandirigma ng NPA ay nagbuwis ng buhay sa
labanan sa kapatagan ng Itawes sa Sityo Talinganay, Barangay Sto. Domingo, Piat, Cagayan noong Mayo
12, 2011.
Ang
Malaweg ay isang maliit na tribong minorya na nakabase sa Zinandungan
Valley sa pagitan ng Kalinga at Cagayan. Tinawag silang Malaweg ( ibig
sabihin sa Kastila ay Masamang Tubig--Mal at Ueg ( Ilog ) sa salitang
Itawes).
May
sariling kabihasnan ngunit iba sa tribong Itawes na nasa Kabundukang
Silangan at Kanlurang kapatagan ng Cagayan. Ang mga Malaweg sa kapatagan
ng Cagayan ang pinakahuling nagapi ng mga Kastila. Ngunit ang mga nasa
bundok lalo na sa Zinandungan Valley ay nanatiling malaya. Napailalim
lamang sila sa panahon ng pananakop ng mga Amerikano.
Si
Ka. Baylon Isa siyang magsasakang ulila na sa mga magulang na nakatira
noon sa Barangay Bato, Rizal, Cagayan. Ang lugar na ito ay nasa bukana
ng Zinandungang Valley sa may kapatagan ng Itawes. Kalaunan, naging
foreman siya ng Redwood
Logging Company, isang trabahong nagdala sa kanya sa liblib ng mga
kagubatan
palapit sa mga mandirigma ng New People’s Army na nagpamulat at
nagpakilos sa
kanya sa rebolusyon. Noong 1979, sumampa siya sa NPA.
Pundador ng NPA
Nakasama siya sa mga unang buong SYP na kumilos sa Kanlurang Cagayan sa may Zinandungan Valley at Santo Nino. Isa siya sa
mga nagpundar ng kilusang magsasaka sa lugar na ito hanggang sa lumaganap ang
kilusan sa buong lambak ng Cagayan at sa Kalinga-Apayao.
Elementarya lamang ang kanyang natapos, ngunit naaral niya ang kalagayan ng
lipunan at ibinahagi ito sa masang magsasakang sinamahan niya sa paglaban
hanggang sa huling hininga.
Pinakamagandang biro niya na di malimutan ng lahat at nagkakatawanan kapag
ikinukuwento niya na ;”
Ang kaklase kong
si Mayor Raul Dela Cruz,( isang malaking panginoong may-lupa sa Rizal,
Cagayan na kabilang sa Pamilyang Villaflor at Sequi sa lalawigan ng
Cagayan) sa elementarya ay nangogopya lang sa akin
lalo na aritmeteka.” Patunay na kahit mahirap, magaling si Ka. Baylon kahit
hindi siya nakapagtapos, Patunay ang mga mahahalagang tungkulin ginampanan niya sa kilusan
mula 1979-2011.
Nang buuin ang Unang Platung Partisano sa Cagayan at Apayao sa Southwest Front (SWF) noong 1985, isa siya
sa nahirang na mamuno sa Sangay ng Partido na mamahala sa pakikibakang masa at
pakikidigmang partisano sa panahong ng SCO.
Nanatili siyang matibay na timon at angkla sa pagpupundar ng Partido at sa
pagsusulong ng rebolusyon sa Cagayan Valley at rehiyon ng Ilocos bago, sa panahon
ng SCO at sa pagsusulong sa Kilusang ng Pagwawasto. Ginampanan niya ang lahat ng tungkuling iniatang sa kanya sa abot ng kanyang
makakaya, tungkuling pang-organisasyon, pampulitika o pangmilitar man ang mga
ito. Kabilang sa mga pusisyong hinawakan niya ay ang pagiging isa sa namumuno
sa Roger Baccud Front noong 1986, South Party Committe-Cagayan noong 1988.
Haligi ng Pagtutuwid
Gumanap siya sa Apayao Party Committee noong 1993, Northwest Cagayan Party
Committee noong 1995, at sa panahon ng kamatayan ay bilang kagawad ng Komiteng
Larangan sa Danilo Ben Front-West Cagayan. Kahit maari nang magpahinga dahil sa
edad at kalagayang pangkalusugan, pinili niyang gumampan ng gawain sa larangang
gerilya. Gumabay at nagsanay siya sa mga bagong kadre at kasapi ng Partido,
naging mahusay na kumander ng platung gerilya
Binigo ni Ka Baylon ang maraming pagsubok sa kanyang katatagan, hindi lang
ang mga panloob na mga kontradiksyon sa isip o sakit sa katawan. Nanatili
siyang matibay kahit dekada na siyang pinasusuko ng kaaway, sa pamamagitan ng
suhol man o karahasan.
Tinawanan niya ang mga alok sa kanya ng pagsurender, napoot siya sa
pagdidiin sa kanyang mga anak at kapamilya upang sumuko siya, kabilang ang
pagpaslang ng militar sa kanyang bagong-panganak na asawang si Maria ‘Ka Rema’
Gubat noong 2001. Sa mahigit 33 taong pagsisilbi niya sa mamamayan, hindi siya
nanlamig sa paglaban ni isang saglit. Magiting na tradisyon ng tribong Malaweg.
Magiting siyang naging inspirasyon hindi lang sa mga kapwa namumuno at
pinamumunuan, kundi pati sa masang anakpawis sa buong rehiyon.
Nakasaludo ang mga kadre at kasapi ng Partido Komunista, mga komander at
mandirigma ng NPA, at buong rebolusyonaryong puersa sa
Cagayan Valley sa naging buhay at kamatayan ni Kasamang Jose Asco.
Buhay at kamatayan itong di mamamantsahan anumang putik ang ibato ng
reaksyunaryong rehimen sa rebolusyonaryong kilusan, isang kasaysayan na
magsisilbing bantayog na kailanma’y nakatirik at di magigiba sa dibdib ng uring
api, gaya ng kanyang prinsipyo na ating pagliliyabin hanggang sa pananagumpay
ng rebolusyon.
Mabuhay ang ala-ala ni Ka Jose Asco
at lahat ng rebolusyonaryong martir!
Mabuhay si Ka. Baylon!
*******
28.9.11
BOOK REVIEW
“ THE PHILIPPINE WAR 1899-1902: A PRO IMPERIALIST BOOK IN THE POST MODERNIST TIME
By Arturo P. Garcia
Author Brian McAllister Linn in his book, “The Philippine War, 1899-1902 “ (427 pages) explains how he draws his conclusions on how the United States won this war or how the Filipinos lost this.
But his questions remained, and this focused to the so-called myth of on how the United States won the war: “ by civilizing Filipinos with a Krag remains resilient.” That is why he took pains to dispute this fact.
As an American author, he calls for a “ reevaluation of military operations” (maybe calling a good war) during the Philippine War. He calls it “ long overdue”. He calls for “ a study of the war, stripping it of ideological blinders so it can offer great insight into complexities of localized guerilla war and indigenous resistance to foreign control.”
Yet like all the academics, in his bibliography he calls historical writing as often summarized as” explaining what happened and why. But he says, in the case of the Philippine –American conflict the “what happened was subordinated to the “ why”
That is a tacit admission he used Imperialist or American works, army records and used Filipinos sources or the participants sources that he called as” limited”.
He was really convinced that’s the “Filipino side awaits a scholar. “ For him, the works of Filipino scholars as a rich source of the war history of the Filipino American War is never enough.
He admitted that he used mostly American books and war records and used the Filipino sources as secondary or not at all. He just mentioned them as perfunctorily as a scholar does but never gave the Filipino side merit for their heroic struggle.
Using the successful American Revolution as an example, he chided the Filipino side for “not having a Natahnael Greene who can combine partisan with regular to achieve campaign or strategic goal.”
He said that “the revolutionaries fought a holding action, the best they can hoe for was their opponents would tire.” He called it “ a short sighted policy.
As usual, blaming the individual leadership, he heaped all the blame to General Emilio Aguinaldo. Praising the Imperialist, he said” What gave the Americans military forces was not their numbers but their effectiveness. Part of these had to do with weapons.”
He never admitted that the Philippines was the first American Vietnam. The only difference is that America lost the Vietnam War (1954-1975) as they lost the Korean War (1950-1954) so they cherish their victory over the Filipinos as a precious one.
The writer was so cruel and very vicious to the greatest Filipino general- Antonio Luna. His few pages that mentioned the gallant defense and offensives of the Army of the Republic led by Luna was riddled with innuendoes from all his enemies.
He never mentioned that Luna gave the Americans a hard time and broke the boast of the Americans that they can beat the Filipinos within “one week” It took them sixteen years to subjugate the Philippines and the myth that they destroyed the Filipino resistance within four years is the myth that Linn is trying to perpetuate up to know.
But what can we expect on the jaundiced eyes of pro-Imperialist authors like Linn.
He readily brushed aside that the Filipinos lost more than a million people fighting for their own Republic, which he conveniently called another myth.
He might be right because one lasting legacy that the Americans left us is that there is no study of Filipino military history even its prime military school-the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), has no nationalist orientation much more the study of the Philippine military history
They are just good in just changing names like the naming the PMA Camp Henry Allen to Fort Gregorio Del Pilar as they did to Camp Murphy to Camp Aguinaldo and Fort McKinley to Fort Bonifacio.
Thus, it is incumbent for Filipinos and Filipino Americans to study their own history and rewrite it in the own perceptions. Until then, authors like Linn will run amuck and brand themselves as authorities on the history of Filipinos.
They will continue to treat us as “lost souls” as the Spanish conquistadores wrote the history of the Philippines filled with heretic, bandits and witches as they Christianized and turned Filipinos as civilized people.
******
“ THE PHILIPPINE WAR 1899-1902: A PRO IMPERIALIST BOOK IN THE POST MODERNIST TIME
By Arturo P. Garcia
Author Brian McAllister Linn in his book, “The Philippine War, 1899-1902 “ (427 pages) explains how he draws his conclusions on how the United States won this war or how the Filipinos lost this.
But his questions remained, and this focused to the so-called myth of on how the United States won the war: “ by civilizing Filipinos with a Krag remains resilient.” That is why he took pains to dispute this fact.
As an American author, he calls for a “ reevaluation of military operations” (maybe calling a good war) during the Philippine War. He calls it “ long overdue”. He calls for “ a study of the war, stripping it of ideological blinders so it can offer great insight into complexities of localized guerilla war and indigenous resistance to foreign control.”
Yet like all the academics, in his bibliography he calls historical writing as often summarized as” explaining what happened and why. But he says, in the case of the Philippine –American conflict the “what happened was subordinated to the “ why”
That is a tacit admission he used Imperialist or American works, army records and used Filipinos sources or the participants sources that he called as” limited”.
He was really convinced that’s the “Filipino side awaits a scholar. “ For him, the works of Filipino scholars as a rich source of the war history of the Filipino American War is never enough.
He admitted that he used mostly American books and war records and used the Filipino sources as secondary or not at all. He just mentioned them as perfunctorily as a scholar does but never gave the Filipino side merit for their heroic struggle.
Using the successful American Revolution as an example, he chided the Filipino side for “not having a Natahnael Greene who can combine partisan with regular to achieve campaign or strategic goal.”
He said that “the revolutionaries fought a holding action, the best they can hoe for was their opponents would tire.” He called it “ a short sighted policy.
As usual, blaming the individual leadership, he heaped all the blame to General Emilio Aguinaldo. Praising the Imperialist, he said” What gave the Americans military forces was not their numbers but their effectiveness. Part of these had to do with weapons.”
He never admitted that the Philippines was the first American Vietnam. The only difference is that America lost the Vietnam War (1954-1975) as they lost the Korean War (1950-1954) so they cherish their victory over the Filipinos as a precious one.
The writer was so cruel and very vicious to the greatest Filipino general- Antonio Luna. His few pages that mentioned the gallant defense and offensives of the Army of the Republic led by Luna was riddled with innuendoes from all his enemies.
He never mentioned that Luna gave the Americans a hard time and broke the boast of the Americans that they can beat the Filipinos within “one week” It took them sixteen years to subjugate the Philippines and the myth that they destroyed the Filipino resistance within four years is the myth that Linn is trying to perpetuate up to know.
But what can we expect on the jaundiced eyes of pro-Imperialist authors like Linn.
He readily brushed aside that the Filipinos lost more than a million people fighting for their own Republic, which he conveniently called another myth.
He might be right because one lasting legacy that the Americans left us is that there is no study of Filipino military history even its prime military school-the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), has no nationalist orientation much more the study of the Philippine military history
They are just good in just changing names like the naming the PMA Camp Henry Allen to Fort Gregorio Del Pilar as they did to Camp Murphy to Camp Aguinaldo and Fort McKinley to Fort Bonifacio.
Thus, it is incumbent for Filipinos and Filipino Americans to study their own history and rewrite it in the own perceptions. Until then, authors like Linn will run amuck and brand themselves as authorities on the history of Filipinos.
They will continue to treat us as “lost souls” as the Spanish conquistadores wrote the history of the Philippines filled with heretic, bandits and witches as they Christianized and turned Filipinos as civilized people.
******
25.9.11
Mga Anak ng kabayo, Apo ng Galunggong (Pasintabi kay Ka Roger)
ula
Mga Anak ng kabayo, Apo ng Galunggong
(Pasintabi kay Ka Roger)
Mga anak ng kabayo ,
malakas sumipa kapag nagagalit,
Mas mapalad pa sa tao
Dahil asendero’y nagmamalasakit,
Sa kabayong gamit sa Polo.
Laro ng mga hari’t prinsipe-
may sariling bahay,tagapag-alaga,
May tagapulot at damong ari,
Samantalang ang mga anak
Ng kabayong tao
Lagi na sa pighati,
Pagkain ay galunggong
O kaya ay asin at siling
Pantighaw sa gutom lagi;
Ngayon, mga apo ng galunggong,
Wala nang makain;
Dahil ang galunggong
Lumayo sa malalim ng dagat
At lumipat na sa Hilaga--
Dahil sa El Nino at El Ninang
Nagpatuyo sa pugad
Ng maaskad na isdang
Pagkain ng mahirap,
Kaya ang mga apo ng galunggong,
Nagmahal na at mahirap bilhin,
Ng aping mahirap
Wala nang makain.
Mahirap talagang maging apo ng kabayo
Lalo ang apo ng galunggong;
nangibang bansa na at lumayo
Sa Silangang Pasipiko,
Nagtago sa dagat
ng Rusya at ng mga Hapon
naninindim dahil sa lamig,
malayo na sa init
ng matinding hilahil.
Agosto 07, 2011
***********
Mga Anak ng kabayo, Apo ng Galunggong
(Pasintabi kay Ka Roger)
Mga anak ng kabayo ,
malakas sumipa kapag nagagalit,
Mas mapalad pa sa tao
Dahil asendero’y nagmamalasakit,
Sa kabayong gamit sa Polo.
Laro ng mga hari’t prinsipe-
may sariling bahay,tagapag-alaga,
May tagapulot at damong ari,
Samantalang ang mga anak
Ng kabayong tao
Lagi na sa pighati,
Pagkain ay galunggong
O kaya ay asin at siling
Pantighaw sa gutom lagi;
Ngayon, mga apo ng galunggong,
Wala nang makain;
Dahil ang galunggong
Lumayo sa malalim ng dagat
At lumipat na sa Hilaga--
Dahil sa El Nino at El Ninang
Nagpatuyo sa pugad
Ng maaskad na isdang
Pagkain ng mahirap,
Kaya ang mga apo ng galunggong,
Nagmahal na at mahirap bilhin,
Ng aping mahirap
Wala nang makain.
Mahirap talagang maging apo ng kabayo
Lalo ang apo ng galunggong;
nangibang bansa na at lumayo
Sa Silangang Pasipiko,
Nagtago sa dagat
ng Rusya at ng mga Hapon
naninindim dahil sa lamig,
malayo na sa init
ng matinding hilahil.
Agosto 07, 2011
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