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SMALL ILOCANO TOWN BECOMES LATEST BATTLEGROUND BETWEEN FORMER LOYALISTS OF TWO DICTATORS AS COMMEMORATION OF WWII COLLABORATOR DESCENDS INTO CHAOS
Korea Times
August 1, 2019
(Batac, PHILIPPINES) - Not far from the birthplace of former President and notorious dictator Ferdinand Marcos in Sarras, Ilocos Norte, a small commemoration was being held at the birthplace of a relatively unknown WWII collaborator. Yesterday, around 500 Filipinos had gathered in front of the Ricarte National Shrine and Museum to commemorate the death of General Artemio Ricarte. Only an hour into the speech made by one of the organizers, a group of former Marcos regime loyalists had descended into the National Shrine and Museum to presumably chase them off, but not before the security detail hired to guard the event had began to fight back, often using butterfly knives to repel the attackers. The security detail and the 500 guests who showed up at the event were unsurprisingly loyalists of another former reviled dictator, Artemio Tadiar. It was not long before the brawl had gone out of control, before municipal police officers dressed in riot gear had descended upon the two warring groups. Before the fight was successfully broken up, one of the Marcos loyalists shouted pro-Marcos slogans, to which five security personnel had shouted pro-Tadiar slogans while giving a fascist salute. The ongoing political rivalry between the pro-Marcos and pro-Tadiar groups had been the hardest in the entirety of Samtoy Region, where memories of the Filipino Civil War had been the most bitter. However, it is also worth noting that La Union Prefecture is also the birthplace of the late General Tadiar, making the rivalry even more tragic, considering that Tadiar had once been the biggest backer of the young son of the late dictator and his 'special circumstances' regarding his schooling in England.
"Traitors who celebrated the life of collaborators who worked for the Japanese should not be allowed to live here in the Philippines. It is a disgrace for all of us in here that even 12 years after Tadiar's death, there are still a lot of his loyalists running around the country, as if the junta did not do anything wrong," says Jerry Dalipog, one of the Vice Presidential Candidates running in the 2020 Philippine Vice Presidential Election as Raymond Bagatsing's running mate, after the incident ended with several people injured. "The fact that there are actual fascists who openly celebrate the darkest period in Philippine history is a testament to the late Tadiar regime's decision to forge closer relations with Japan is an insult to those who suffered under Japanese occupation."
Since the death of Artemio Tadiar and the caretaker government under Hector Tarrazona had presided over the gradual shift to full democracy, the Filipino far-right had been fractured along political loyalties to the legacies of the two late dictators. However, the pro-Tadiar loyalists were more prone to controversies than their pro-Marcos loyalist counterparts. Back in 2016, another group of pro-Tadiar loyalists had launched an event to commemorate the death of Benigno Ramos, whose remains was accidentally discovered by foreign backpackers while they were on a camping trip in the mountains around Benguet Prefecture a year prior to the commemoration of his death, in the town of Bulakan, Bulacan Prefecture. It has become a recurring theme for the Philippines that whenever the commemoration of a former collaborator's death comes around, there were massive protests aimed at stopping such an event, but counter-demonstrators were often deployed to not only present a show of force, but that they were willing to fight the protesters. Fast forward to this year, which happens to be the most crucial election year since the re-establishment of democracy in the Philippines, and both Carlos Zarate's Patriotic Socialist Front and Nicanor Faeldon's Fatherland Freedom Party are gaining popularity among many Filipinos. It is also worth nothing that both the far-left and far-right parties did not bother to consult the Roman Catholic clergy in the Philippines for support, seeing them as relics of an unwanted past that the Tadiar regime had tried and failed to destroy, with the most notable example being the extreme secularization of Filipino society through the total ban on clerical participation in politics.
"Many of my colleagues who lived in the convents were murdered by paramilitary forces loyal to Nicanor Faeldon's Fatherland Freedom Party. Most of them dressed up like the Makapili during WWII, and they carried out atrocities that were so brutal, even Tadiar had to send the military to order the hooligans to cease and desist," says an unnamed Catholic monk, whose convent in Nueva Vizcaya had been burnt down in the early 2000s. "Unfortunately, the Tadiar regime did not bother to punish the hooligans, but only reprimanded them for being too violent. We never received any justice since then."
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT REJECTS ICC REQUEST TO EXTRADITE THREE LOGOS GROUP MERCENARIES ON CHARGES OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY DURING SECOND KOREAN WAR
Sydney Herald
Novemer 12, 2019
A Polish far-right activist holds a rare version of the National Rebirth of Poland flag as the annual Independence Day march is dominated by their demonstrations of support for the three convicted Polish war criminals charged with crimes against humanity.
(The Hague, NETHERLANDS) - Unfazed by the growing demands of the International Criminal Court's requests and demands for the United States government to extradite three members of the notorious PMC Logos Group to the Hague in order to try them for crimes against humanity during the Second Korean War. Three employees of the PMC Logos Group, whose names were not revealed for undisclosed reasons, were Polish nationals who were deployed as part of the mercenary group's assignment to help the former South Korean government in their war effort against the former North Korean communist government. Convicted on charges of crimes against humanity and other variety of crimes of aggression, the three unnamed Logosians are receiving protection by the US government until a suitable time can be found for their relocation back to Poland, under diplomatic protection. Anti-American and anti-Polish protests had broken out in every major Korean city as a result of the Kaine administration's refusal to extradite the three Logosians for their crimes. The aforementioned crime was their role in the torture of captured ex-North Korean POWs, as well as the reprisal mass killings that occurred in the ex-North Korean town of Tokchon back in 2003. Additionally, several other Logosians and over thirty Filipino members of the dreaded Bato and Berdugo Brigades were convicted in the vicious suppression of the striking workers of the defunct Pyeonghwa Motor Company, mainly through the use of lethal force and attempted murder of the union leaders leading the strike. The Pyeonghwa Motor Company strike, along with the other atrocities committed by the former South Korean government's allies, had remained a source of open hostility between the Korean Federal Republic and the nations involved in the Second Korean War.
"The International Criminal Court should simply do what we say, and only place on trial anyone who undermines our national interest. The same should apply to the International Court of Justice," says American President Tim Kaine, when asked by foreign and local reporters on whether or not the Logosians would be extradited. "I'm a bit irritated that the ICC and ICJ had the audacity to demand from us the extradition of those three Logosians who have done a marvelous job bringing freedom and democracy to the reunified Korean peninsula, and whatever they did, it is always right in our books. Bringing freedom and democracy also has to involve the wholesale destruction of totalitarian regimes that not only destabilize world peace, but act as parasites on our rules based order. We have no tolerance for Third World renegades who challenge our interests."
The three unnamed Logosians however, has emerged as a kind of local celebrity back in Poland, where memories of the Second Russian Civil War and its extremely savage nature of the conflict had still remained alive. In the Polish city of Krolewiec (formerly the Russian city of Kaliningrad), anti-Russian slogans are often seen on the city walls, alongside anti-Asian hate speeches as well. Since 1995, the far-right in Poland had been immensely influenced by the presence of foreign volunteers with white supremacist leanings, and their role in the mass atrocities committed against Russian and Belarusian civilians had led to counter-reprisals on their end, which one of them was the Motyli Massacre. In addition, the PMC Logos Defense Group has its headquarters in Poland, and most of its members are all veterans of the Second Russian Civil War. However, the rise of the Eastern European counterparts to the notorious Ku Klux Klan had been a major source of embarrassment for the reviled late American neoconservative war hawk Zbigniew Brzezinski, whose interaction with ex-KKK Grand Wizard David Duke had become a black mark on his political career. His assassination by the Russian KGB in the form of a plane crash on August 15, 2010, had worsened Russo-American relations, and almost triggered a war between Russia and the Intermarium Alliance. Unsurprisingly, the three Logosians convicted of war crimes were revealed to have ties to far-right organizations that exist in Poland.
"Honestly, the ICC and ICJ should be abolished once and for all. They think they can try everyone with the same laws that are only suited for the Third World. Poland considers those three men as heroes, and so do I. We call upon the US government to push for the abolition of the ICC and ICJ, even if we have to storm their building and burn it down!" prominent American member of the PMC Logos Defense Group Richard Spencer shouted in front of local supporters while holding a rally in downtown Warsaw, alongside his wife Basia Galkowska, who he had met while defending a position outside the Lithuanian town of Drusininkai from incoming Soviet forces and far-left paramilitaries led by Novy Put'. "We are on the front lines in this new ideological war between Asiatic neo-NazBolism and the Euro-Atlantic civilizations of the West. We are not afraid to take on the might of the Third World, for our ancestors had brought them to heel in the past. We have done that before, and we will finish them off next time!"
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LIBINGAN NG MGA BAYANI
MAY 27, 2017
To 20 year old Banoy Sagaysay, visiting such a sacred place like the Libingan ng Mga Bayani felt really intimidating. Rows upon rows of tombstones could be seen covering the entirety of the cemetery, each with the various names of fallen soldiers who died in various wars. He could easily tell by which conflict the fallen soldiers had died in by the numerous amount of flowers that were laid on the bottom of the tombstone. Yet, he was walking alongside many other young adults who were probably graduates of the Goyo Academies that were built after the Chinese bombing of the Philippines. It was not until he and the rest of the crowd had reached a medium sized mausoleum that became one of the most sacred places in their political memory. He could see the day of the dead man's birth, as well as the day that he died. There was no mistaking it; they have come on this special day to pay respects to the man who 'saved' them from fate itself. Unlike the other young adults who were orphaned because of the Chinese bombing, Banoy was actually orphaned while he and his parents lived in political exile in Poland. Flashbacks of when their house was being set on fire by hooligans fueled by bitter hatred from their experiences in the battlefields of the Baltic States, Belarus, and Ukraine flew before his eyes, and Banoy himself nearly died. Luckily for him, a sympathetic local offered to take him to the Philippine Embassy in Kyiv, which was a rarity, as Ukraine was the only European country that maintained relations with the late Tadiar regime. From being orphaned in the streets to Warsaw to a student of Goyo Academy, Banoy could feel and truly understand what Tadiar was saying, and the teachers that told their students, including himself, that the Philippines is like a lost orphan who did not belong anywhere. He compared the entire war-torn country to the orphaned child, which reasonated with him. After graduating from Goyo Academy, he served his country as a soldier because of the policy of mandatory conscription, rising to the rank of Sergeant.
"We're here now," said another former Goyo Academy graduate to Banoy. Banoy himself nodded and stopped as an older looking man stepped in front of the crowd. Beside him were several flag bearers that carried the Tadiar-era Estalada flag, considered a sacred object among the Goyo Academy graduates. He also noticed that they also wore armbands with the same emblem as the one on the Estelada flag, but what truly impressed him was the bayong baskets worn to cover their heads.
"Fellow patriots and children of the Eternal Hero," said the speech giver as the crowd fell silent. "Every year, there are more of you who are coming on this solemn day to celebrate and commemorate the life of the Eternal Hero who saved us all from a fate worse than death. Look around you and think of what you're seeing." Every young man and woman nodded in agreement as they shook hands with one another. "All of us here have attended the academy that bore the name of the young general who defied the Americans and died for it. The spirit of Goyo, or Gregorio Del Pilar, lives on within us. As is the spirit of Antonio Luna, Artemio Ricarte, Macario Sakay, Jose P. Laurel, and Benigno Ramos. Of these heroes, only Laurel and Ramos truly understood where our country's destiny truly lay, and that was with Japan and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. There are those who say that they collaborated with the Japanese, and therefore are traitors. The real question that I should say is, who are the real traitors of that time? The same sniveling cowards that conspired to kill General Luna are the ones who groveled before the Americans, the big white gringo who destroyed our national pride by banning us from celebrating our national heroes out of fear that we would be arrested for sedition. It is thanks to Jose P. Laurel, Benigno Ramos and our Japanese comrades that we were able to celebrate them openly. The real tragedy is that far too many of us chose to resist the Japanese in the vain and delusional thought that our independence is assured by the Americans. Since 1946, did we truly had an independent foreign policy?"
"No!" the crowd shouted.
"From Presidents Roxas to Marcos, our country was still tethered to the American rope. Even General Tadiar was tethered to the rope, until President Jesse Jackson foolishly or wisely threw Tadiar under the bus when we were at the mercy of the Chinese. We defended our Vietnamese ally, despite being a communist regime, because their lands were being attacked as well. The price we paid was a land devastated by bombs and a population on the verge of starving to death. Who saved us this time around?" the speech giver said in a louder voice.
"Japan saved us!" the crowd shouted again. "Japan the savior! Japan the hero!"
The speech giver nodded in agreement. "General Tadiar, in his infinite wisdom, turned to the true ally and friend of the Filipino people, Japan, and her marital people. It was thanks to China's folly when they bombed the Japanese Embassy in Manila and their refusal to apologize for their actions that gave Japan the courage to throw off the chains of the post-war shame imposed on them by the Americans. Look at them now. Look at ourselves. Since 1997, our friendship with the Japanese had never been much better. The Turks, though far away from us, gave us one other weapon that we needed to destroy the power of the Catholic Church in the country. Kemalist Secularism has been adopted by General Tadiar and made it even better. Tadiarist Secularism today is a testament to the Philippines's desire to build a completely secular society, where the power of the clergy would be destroyed and non-existent. Even the Muslims in Mindanao felt much safer under Tadiar than under the current administration, who is trying to bring back the Catholic clergy into our country. Should we let President Legarda succeed with that idiocy?"
The crowd's anger exploded. "No!"
"Our secular society has enabled us to expand our thirst for learning into the sciences, and it has also enabled us to reach out to other nations around Asia for inspiration. We can thank our fraternal kinsfolk, the Malaysians and Indonesians, for helping us reconnect to our lost Austronesian heritage. We can thank the Thai, Burmese, and Vietnamese comrades who backed us in the face of Chinese aggression. Even now, there are those traitors within our society who want to surrender Scarborough Shoal and Kalayaan Island to the same Chinese that destroyed our nation." The speech giver inhaled and exhaled for a moment, before resuming his speech. "Today is the anniversary of the Eternal Hero's death. Let us stand in silence to commemorate the life that he led."
Banoy closed his eyes and meditated for a while on what the speech giver said. Five minutes later, three men clad in Buddhist monk robes had accompanied two Muslim imams and one Aglipayan priest whispered their prayers and laid flowers inside the mausoleum. The crowd opened their eyes, but remained silent. The speech giver then saluted to the mausoleum, prompting Banoy and the crowd to do so as well. Once the salute was finished, the speech giver returned to face the crowd once again.
"Though President Laurel is buried in Batangas and Benigno Ramos is buried in Bulakan, we also give our thanks to them for their contribution to our nation's independence. However, it is to General Tadiar that we give our thanks to today." The speech giver stood at an attention. "GENERAL ARTEMIO TADIAR!"
Banoy and the rest of the crowd shouted in unision. "WE ARE HERE!"
"GENERAL ARTEMIO TADIAR!"
"WE ARE HERE!"
The chants continued on until the ceremony concluded with the flag bearers standing in front of the speech giver. The crowd then formed four lines and began to march out of the cemetery. When the crowd reached the end of Bayani Road and Iwanaka Road (originally named Lawton Road, until the Tadiar regime's de-Americanization policies had forced the entire country to remove any street names from the American period or anything got to do with the United States and renamed them after various IJA officers who were in the Philippines), they were suddenly pelted with stones and eggs. Banoy turned around and saw a different crowd charging at them. He quickly grabbed his baton and began to charge at the opposing crowd, his comrades and the speech giver doing the same as well.
"Traitors!" the opposing crowd shouted angrily, but Banoy was able to avoid a punch to his face by slamming his bat into the assailant's cheek. "We'll gladly send you to join your idol!"
"We'll do the same thing and send you to that thief you bastards love so much!" Banoy shouted back. "For General Tadiar!"
"General Tadiar!" the pro-Tadiar crowd shouted back. "Long live the Philippines!"
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ANGELES-BARTOLOME CABANGBANG AIR BASE
ANGELES, PAMPANGA PREFECTURE
MARCH 15, 2020
Five large cargo planes were approaching the tarmac of the airbase as various air traffic control personnel constant chatted with the pilots of the arriving aircraft. Beside the air traffic tower were various fighter planes from both the Philippine Air Force and their counterparts in the Vietnamese Aviation Force and the Japan Aerospace Defense Force, as well as trainer aircraft. An hour later, what appeared to be five cargoplanes were in fact Kawasaki C-2 military transport aircraft. The cargo, or rather, passengers, that were coming out of the Kawasaki C-2 military were clad in their fatigues. Yet, the fatigues that these newcomers had worn looked a bit different from the usual Japan Ground Defense Force combat fatigues that they wore. What really struck out among these newcomers was the emblem that was placed on their uniform: a black background with a red cloud and a thunderbolt imposing itself over the red cloud. It could only be one thing: that these newcomers are in fact from the Akatsuki International Resource Group, and the Japanese nationals that arrived were not the only ones. Coming out of the second Kawasaki C-2 transport plane were the Vietnamese contingent, while the third transport plane had unloaded their passengers that turned out to be Thai mercenaries. The last two transport planes that unloaded their passengers turned out to be Burmese, Australian, and New Zealander contractors that joined the group.
"Sato! Kyogoku! Shimazaki! Urahara! Yamada! Get your asses inside the hangar and fall in!" one of the AIRG leaders barked to the five Japanese nationals who disembarked from the transport plane last.
A black haired man clad in his AIRG-issued fatigues jogged faster. "Yes, sir!"
"Hold on a sec!" A brown haired woman around the same age as the guy jogging faster yelled, prompting two other women to do the same. Though they were carrying Howa Type 89 rifles, the three AIRG women also carried what appeared to be a bag full of medical supplies as well.
A half hour later, every single AIRG personnel stood at attention as a burly looking man arrived at the center of the hangar. The personnel observed the man in question as his shades covered the glare in his eyes, but it appeared that he wasn't angry at all. Outside the hangar, various engineering equipment were being rolled out of the airfield as they made their way into the highway. Several Type 73 heavy trucks also rolled into the vicinity of the hangar as their drivers awaited for the assembly to disperse.
"Soldiers of the Akatsuki International Resorce Group! It is becoming inevitable that the Philippines will become a battleground between our guests and the Chinese military. It will not surprise us one bit if the Russians and Koreans decide to join in this little party as well. That is why we've all been deployed here to assist our friends with the construction of several fortifications and defensive lines." The AIRG leader nodded to the three men who unfolded the map of what appeared to be central Luzon. "Our Vietnamese friends who joined us will help construct the first line that will connect the towns of Narvacan, Bangued, and Tuguegarao. Next, the second line will be constructed by our Thai friends, with the Philippine military assisting them. This second line will go from Agoo, through Baguio City, and through the Magat River, before ending at Palanan. Additional auxiliary defensive lines will be built over there."
"Sir? Will we erect tents so that we can sleep when we're off duty then?" One of the other AIRG member asked as he raised his hand.
The AIRG leader nodded. "Of course. There will be mess halls, infirmaries, and sleeping quarters set up. However, we will also have to assume that the line of defenses that we're building will be where we'll also set up weapons encampments, as well as anti-tank countermeasures." He then continued to point at the map using a stick. "Next, our guests from Australia and New Zealand will oversee the evacuation of civilians into various bunkers that were built during the Tadiar era, and they're scattered throughout southern Luzon, with the exception of civilian volunteers who will join the paramilitary forces. They're only getting a few days' worth of training, so it is our job to make sure they survive."
The man named Sato then raised his hand up. "Sir, what will we do in the meantime? I assume that we're going to build defenses as well?"
"That is correct, Sato. The third defensive line that will go from Masinloc, through Tarlac City, Cabanatuan City, and into both Baler and Dingalan must be built by the Japanese contingent. Additionally, we will establish Gapan as both our supply hub and communications center, and to prevent the enemy forces from reaching the flatter lands of Bulacan Prefecture. Once the civilians willing to leave have been evacuated, they'll build the final line of defense around the Subic Bay naval base, through San Fernando, and into Pulilan and Plaridel. Our main goal overall is to bleed the enemy dry before they reach the old capital. We'll also have to build several fortifications and chokepoints around the old capital region, but time is not on our side. Your orders will be issued through your platoon leaders once you've reached your zone of deployment." The AIRG stood at attention as the three men holding the map folded it back. "Attention!" The personnel stood at attention. "To the trucks, dismissed!"
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"Yuiichi-kun?" One of the female medics said softly as she nudged him awake. "We're here now."
It had been only a few hours since the trucks had departed from the airbase when Yuiichi Sato woke up from his nap. The woman who nudged him awake looked at the other guy who was napping beside Yuiichi. Another medic then nudged the other sleeping man awake.
"We're here already?" The other guy muttered, but could not yawn as one of the platoon leaders opened the truck and banged loudly.
"Move out! Move out! On the double!" The platoon leader barked as everyone exited the truck and stood in front of the banks of the Penaranda River. Once everyone gathered around the platoon leader, he sighed in relief. "I'm glad to see that none of your are harmed, though that can change in a few days' time. Our objective here is to construct pillboxes along the southern banks of the Penaranda River. However, the construction of these fortifications will be round the clock, so your only time for break will be around breakfast, lunch, dinner, and mandatory bedtime. I'm afraid there will be no downtime, as we may end up in a shooting war against the entire ESTO military forces that will invade the Philippines, and that is IF they invade. Is that clear?"
"Yes, sir!" everyone shouted in unision.
"Dismissed!" The AIRG personnel then began to walk towards the engineering vehicles as construction crews and regular Philippine military personnel started to talk to the platoon leaders on what they would be doing.
"Noa! Nagisa! We're needed in the infirmary space!" The woman who nudged Yuiichi spoke loudly.
"Kyogoku, surnames only!" The platoon leader barked sternly as Kyogoku slammed her head with her hand.
"Apologies. I meant, Urahara and Shimazaki! We're needed in the infirmary space immediately," the woman named Yui Kyogoku said as the other two medics later joined her and walked off to another area of the Penaranda River.
SMALL ILOCANO TOWN BECOMES LATEST BATTLEGROUND BETWEEN FORMER LOYALISTS OF TWO DICTATORS AS COMMEMORATION OF WWII COLLABORATOR DESCENDS INTO CHAOS
Korea Times
August 1, 2019
(Batac, PHILIPPINES) - Not far from the birthplace of former President and notorious dictator Ferdinand Marcos in Sarras, Ilocos Norte, a small commemoration was being held at the birthplace of a relatively unknown WWII collaborator. Yesterday, around 500 Filipinos had gathered in front of the Ricarte National Shrine and Museum to commemorate the death of General Artemio Ricarte. Only an hour into the speech made by one of the organizers, a group of former Marcos regime loyalists had descended into the National Shrine and Museum to presumably chase them off, but not before the security detail hired to guard the event had began to fight back, often using butterfly knives to repel the attackers. The security detail and the 500 guests who showed up at the event were unsurprisingly loyalists of another former reviled dictator, Artemio Tadiar. It was not long before the brawl had gone out of control, before municipal police officers dressed in riot gear had descended upon the two warring groups. Before the fight was successfully broken up, one of the Marcos loyalists shouted pro-Marcos slogans, to which five security personnel had shouted pro-Tadiar slogans while giving a fascist salute. The ongoing political rivalry between the pro-Marcos and pro-Tadiar groups had been the hardest in the entirety of Samtoy Region, where memories of the Filipino Civil War had been the most bitter. However, it is also worth noting that La Union Prefecture is also the birthplace of the late General Tadiar, making the rivalry even more tragic, considering that Tadiar had once been the biggest backer of the young son of the late dictator and his 'special circumstances' regarding his schooling in England.
"Traitors who celebrated the life of collaborators who worked for the Japanese should not be allowed to live here in the Philippines. It is a disgrace for all of us in here that even 12 years after Tadiar's death, there are still a lot of his loyalists running around the country, as if the junta did not do anything wrong," says Jerry Dalipog, one of the Vice Presidential Candidates running in the 2020 Philippine Vice Presidential Election as Raymond Bagatsing's running mate, after the incident ended with several people injured. "The fact that there are actual fascists who openly celebrate the darkest period in Philippine history is a testament to the late Tadiar regime's decision to forge closer relations with Japan is an insult to those who suffered under Japanese occupation."
Since the death of Artemio Tadiar and the caretaker government under Hector Tarrazona had presided over the gradual shift to full democracy, the Filipino far-right had been fractured along political loyalties to the legacies of the two late dictators. However, the pro-Tadiar loyalists were more prone to controversies than their pro-Marcos loyalist counterparts. Back in 2016, another group of pro-Tadiar loyalists had launched an event to commemorate the death of Benigno Ramos, whose remains was accidentally discovered by foreign backpackers while they were on a camping trip in the mountains around Benguet Prefecture a year prior to the commemoration of his death, in the town of Bulakan, Bulacan Prefecture. It has become a recurring theme for the Philippines that whenever the commemoration of a former collaborator's death comes around, there were massive protests aimed at stopping such an event, but counter-demonstrators were often deployed to not only present a show of force, but that they were willing to fight the protesters. Fast forward to this year, which happens to be the most crucial election year since the re-establishment of democracy in the Philippines, and both Carlos Zarate's Patriotic Socialist Front and Nicanor Faeldon's Fatherland Freedom Party are gaining popularity among many Filipinos. It is also worth nothing that both the far-left and far-right parties did not bother to consult the Roman Catholic clergy in the Philippines for support, seeing them as relics of an unwanted past that the Tadiar regime had tried and failed to destroy, with the most notable example being the extreme secularization of Filipino society through the total ban on clerical participation in politics.
"Many of my colleagues who lived in the convents were murdered by paramilitary forces loyal to Nicanor Faeldon's Fatherland Freedom Party. Most of them dressed up like the Makapili during WWII, and they carried out atrocities that were so brutal, even Tadiar had to send the military to order the hooligans to cease and desist," says an unnamed Catholic monk, whose convent in Nueva Vizcaya had been burnt down in the early 2000s. "Unfortunately, the Tadiar regime did not bother to punish the hooligans, but only reprimanded them for being too violent. We never received any justice since then."
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT REJECTS ICC REQUEST TO EXTRADITE THREE LOGOS GROUP MERCENARIES ON CHARGES OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY DURING SECOND KOREAN WAR
Sydney Herald
Novemer 12, 2019
A Polish far-right activist holds a rare version of the National Rebirth of Poland flag as the annual Independence Day march is dominated by their demonstrations of support for the three convicted Polish war criminals charged with crimes against humanity.
(The Hague, NETHERLANDS) - Unfazed by the growing demands of the International Criminal Court's requests and demands for the United States government to extradite three members of the notorious PMC Logos Group to the Hague in order to try them for crimes against humanity during the Second Korean War. Three employees of the PMC Logos Group, whose names were not revealed for undisclosed reasons, were Polish nationals who were deployed as part of the mercenary group's assignment to help the former South Korean government in their war effort against the former North Korean communist government. Convicted on charges of crimes against humanity and other variety of crimes of aggression, the three unnamed Logosians are receiving protection by the US government until a suitable time can be found for their relocation back to Poland, under diplomatic protection. Anti-American and anti-Polish protests had broken out in every major Korean city as a result of the Kaine administration's refusal to extradite the three Logosians for their crimes. The aforementioned crime was their role in the torture of captured ex-North Korean POWs, as well as the reprisal mass killings that occurred in the ex-North Korean town of Tokchon back in 2003. Additionally, several other Logosians and over thirty Filipino members of the dreaded Bato and Berdugo Brigades were convicted in the vicious suppression of the striking workers of the defunct Pyeonghwa Motor Company, mainly through the use of lethal force and attempted murder of the union leaders leading the strike. The Pyeonghwa Motor Company strike, along with the other atrocities committed by the former South Korean government's allies, had remained a source of open hostility between the Korean Federal Republic and the nations involved in the Second Korean War.
"The International Criminal Court should simply do what we say, and only place on trial anyone who undermines our national interest. The same should apply to the International Court of Justice," says American President Tim Kaine, when asked by foreign and local reporters on whether or not the Logosians would be extradited. "I'm a bit irritated that the ICC and ICJ had the audacity to demand from us the extradition of those three Logosians who have done a marvelous job bringing freedom and democracy to the reunified Korean peninsula, and whatever they did, it is always right in our books. Bringing freedom and democracy also has to involve the wholesale destruction of totalitarian regimes that not only destabilize world peace, but act as parasites on our rules based order. We have no tolerance for Third World renegades who challenge our interests."
The three unnamed Logosians however, has emerged as a kind of local celebrity back in Poland, where memories of the Second Russian Civil War and its extremely savage nature of the conflict had still remained alive. In the Polish city of Krolewiec (formerly the Russian city of Kaliningrad), anti-Russian slogans are often seen on the city walls, alongside anti-Asian hate speeches as well. Since 1995, the far-right in Poland had been immensely influenced by the presence of foreign volunteers with white supremacist leanings, and their role in the mass atrocities committed against Russian and Belarusian civilians had led to counter-reprisals on their end, which one of them was the Motyli Massacre. In addition, the PMC Logos Defense Group has its headquarters in Poland, and most of its members are all veterans of the Second Russian Civil War. However, the rise of the Eastern European counterparts to the notorious Ku Klux Klan had been a major source of embarrassment for the reviled late American neoconservative war hawk Zbigniew Brzezinski, whose interaction with ex-KKK Grand Wizard David Duke had become a black mark on his political career. His assassination by the Russian KGB in the form of a plane crash on August 15, 2010, had worsened Russo-American relations, and almost triggered a war between Russia and the Intermarium Alliance. Unsurprisingly, the three Logosians convicted of war crimes were revealed to have ties to far-right organizations that exist in Poland.
"Honestly, the ICC and ICJ should be abolished once and for all. They think they can try everyone with the same laws that are only suited for the Third World. Poland considers those three men as heroes, and so do I. We call upon the US government to push for the abolition of the ICC and ICJ, even if we have to storm their building and burn it down!" prominent American member of the PMC Logos Defense Group Richard Spencer shouted in front of local supporters while holding a rally in downtown Warsaw, alongside his wife Basia Galkowska, who he had met while defending a position outside the Lithuanian town of Drusininkai from incoming Soviet forces and far-left paramilitaries led by Novy Put'. "We are on the front lines in this new ideological war between Asiatic neo-NazBolism and the Euro-Atlantic civilizations of the West. We are not afraid to take on the might of the Third World, for our ancestors had brought them to heel in the past. We have done that before, and we will finish them off next time!"
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LIBINGAN NG MGA BAYANI
MAY 27, 2017
To 20 year old Banoy Sagaysay, visiting such a sacred place like the Libingan ng Mga Bayani felt really intimidating. Rows upon rows of tombstones could be seen covering the entirety of the cemetery, each with the various names of fallen soldiers who died in various wars. He could easily tell by which conflict the fallen soldiers had died in by the numerous amount of flowers that were laid on the bottom of the tombstone. Yet, he was walking alongside many other young adults who were probably graduates of the Goyo Academies that were built after the Chinese bombing of the Philippines. It was not until he and the rest of the crowd had reached a medium sized mausoleum that became one of the most sacred places in their political memory. He could see the day of the dead man's birth, as well as the day that he died. There was no mistaking it; they have come on this special day to pay respects to the man who 'saved' them from fate itself. Unlike the other young adults who were orphaned because of the Chinese bombing, Banoy was actually orphaned while he and his parents lived in political exile in Poland. Flashbacks of when their house was being set on fire by hooligans fueled by bitter hatred from their experiences in the battlefields of the Baltic States, Belarus, and Ukraine flew before his eyes, and Banoy himself nearly died. Luckily for him, a sympathetic local offered to take him to the Philippine Embassy in Kyiv, which was a rarity, as Ukraine was the only European country that maintained relations with the late Tadiar regime. From being orphaned in the streets to Warsaw to a student of Goyo Academy, Banoy could feel and truly understand what Tadiar was saying, and the teachers that told their students, including himself, that the Philippines is like a lost orphan who did not belong anywhere. He compared the entire war-torn country to the orphaned child, which reasonated with him. After graduating from Goyo Academy, he served his country as a soldier because of the policy of mandatory conscription, rising to the rank of Sergeant.
"We're here now," said another former Goyo Academy graduate to Banoy. Banoy himself nodded and stopped as an older looking man stepped in front of the crowd. Beside him were several flag bearers that carried the Tadiar-era Estalada flag, considered a sacred object among the Goyo Academy graduates. He also noticed that they also wore armbands with the same emblem as the one on the Estelada flag, but what truly impressed him was the bayong baskets worn to cover their heads.
"Fellow patriots and children of the Eternal Hero," said the speech giver as the crowd fell silent. "Every year, there are more of you who are coming on this solemn day to celebrate and commemorate the life of the Eternal Hero who saved us all from a fate worse than death. Look around you and think of what you're seeing." Every young man and woman nodded in agreement as they shook hands with one another. "All of us here have attended the academy that bore the name of the young general who defied the Americans and died for it. The spirit of Goyo, or Gregorio Del Pilar, lives on within us. As is the spirit of Antonio Luna, Artemio Ricarte, Macario Sakay, Jose P. Laurel, and Benigno Ramos. Of these heroes, only Laurel and Ramos truly understood where our country's destiny truly lay, and that was with Japan and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. There are those who say that they collaborated with the Japanese, and therefore are traitors. The real question that I should say is, who are the real traitors of that time? The same sniveling cowards that conspired to kill General Luna are the ones who groveled before the Americans, the big white gringo who destroyed our national pride by banning us from celebrating our national heroes out of fear that we would be arrested for sedition. It is thanks to Jose P. Laurel, Benigno Ramos and our Japanese comrades that we were able to celebrate them openly. The real tragedy is that far too many of us chose to resist the Japanese in the vain and delusional thought that our independence is assured by the Americans. Since 1946, did we truly had an independent foreign policy?"
"No!" the crowd shouted.
"From Presidents Roxas to Marcos, our country was still tethered to the American rope. Even General Tadiar was tethered to the rope, until President Jesse Jackson foolishly or wisely threw Tadiar under the bus when we were at the mercy of the Chinese. We defended our Vietnamese ally, despite being a communist regime, because their lands were being attacked as well. The price we paid was a land devastated by bombs and a population on the verge of starving to death. Who saved us this time around?" the speech giver said in a louder voice.
"Japan saved us!" the crowd shouted again. "Japan the savior! Japan the hero!"
The speech giver nodded in agreement. "General Tadiar, in his infinite wisdom, turned to the true ally and friend of the Filipino people, Japan, and her marital people. It was thanks to China's folly when they bombed the Japanese Embassy in Manila and their refusal to apologize for their actions that gave Japan the courage to throw off the chains of the post-war shame imposed on them by the Americans. Look at them now. Look at ourselves. Since 1997, our friendship with the Japanese had never been much better. The Turks, though far away from us, gave us one other weapon that we needed to destroy the power of the Catholic Church in the country. Kemalist Secularism has been adopted by General Tadiar and made it even better. Tadiarist Secularism today is a testament to the Philippines's desire to build a completely secular society, where the power of the clergy would be destroyed and non-existent. Even the Muslims in Mindanao felt much safer under Tadiar than under the current administration, who is trying to bring back the Catholic clergy into our country. Should we let President Legarda succeed with that idiocy?"
The crowd's anger exploded. "No!"
"Our secular society has enabled us to expand our thirst for learning into the sciences, and it has also enabled us to reach out to other nations around Asia for inspiration. We can thank our fraternal kinsfolk, the Malaysians and Indonesians, for helping us reconnect to our lost Austronesian heritage. We can thank the Thai, Burmese, and Vietnamese comrades who backed us in the face of Chinese aggression. Even now, there are those traitors within our society who want to surrender Scarborough Shoal and Kalayaan Island to the same Chinese that destroyed our nation." The speech giver inhaled and exhaled for a moment, before resuming his speech. "Today is the anniversary of the Eternal Hero's death. Let us stand in silence to commemorate the life that he led."
Banoy closed his eyes and meditated for a while on what the speech giver said. Five minutes later, three men clad in Buddhist monk robes had accompanied two Muslim imams and one Aglipayan priest whispered their prayers and laid flowers inside the mausoleum. The crowd opened their eyes, but remained silent. The speech giver then saluted to the mausoleum, prompting Banoy and the crowd to do so as well. Once the salute was finished, the speech giver returned to face the crowd once again.
"Though President Laurel is buried in Batangas and Benigno Ramos is buried in Bulakan, we also give our thanks to them for their contribution to our nation's independence. However, it is to General Tadiar that we give our thanks to today." The speech giver stood at an attention. "GENERAL ARTEMIO TADIAR!"
Banoy and the rest of the crowd shouted in unision. "WE ARE HERE!"
"GENERAL ARTEMIO TADIAR!"
"WE ARE HERE!"
The chants continued on until the ceremony concluded with the flag bearers standing in front of the speech giver. The crowd then formed four lines and began to march out of the cemetery. When the crowd reached the end of Bayani Road and Iwanaka Road (originally named Lawton Road, until the Tadiar regime's de-Americanization policies had forced the entire country to remove any street names from the American period or anything got to do with the United States and renamed them after various IJA officers who were in the Philippines), they were suddenly pelted with stones and eggs. Banoy turned around and saw a different crowd charging at them. He quickly grabbed his baton and began to charge at the opposing crowd, his comrades and the speech giver doing the same as well.
"Traitors!" the opposing crowd shouted angrily, but Banoy was able to avoid a punch to his face by slamming his bat into the assailant's cheek. "We'll gladly send you to join your idol!"
"We'll do the same thing and send you to that thief you bastards love so much!" Banoy shouted back. "For General Tadiar!"
"General Tadiar!" the pro-Tadiar crowd shouted back. "Long live the Philippines!"
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ANGELES-BARTOLOME CABANGBANG AIR BASE
ANGELES, PAMPANGA PREFECTURE
MARCH 15, 2020
Five large cargo planes were approaching the tarmac of the airbase as various air traffic control personnel constant chatted with the pilots of the arriving aircraft. Beside the air traffic tower were various fighter planes from both the Philippine Air Force and their counterparts in the Vietnamese Aviation Force and the Japan Aerospace Defense Force, as well as trainer aircraft. An hour later, what appeared to be five cargoplanes were in fact Kawasaki C-2 military transport aircraft. The cargo, or rather, passengers, that were coming out of the Kawasaki C-2 military were clad in their fatigues. Yet, the fatigues that these newcomers had worn looked a bit different from the usual Japan Ground Defense Force combat fatigues that they wore. What really struck out among these newcomers was the emblem that was placed on their uniform: a black background with a red cloud and a thunderbolt imposing itself over the red cloud. It could only be one thing: that these newcomers are in fact from the Akatsuki International Resource Group, and the Japanese nationals that arrived were not the only ones. Coming out of the second Kawasaki C-2 transport plane were the Vietnamese contingent, while the third transport plane had unloaded their passengers that turned out to be Thai mercenaries. The last two transport planes that unloaded their passengers turned out to be Burmese, Australian, and New Zealander contractors that joined the group.
"Sato! Kyogoku! Shimazaki! Urahara! Yamada! Get your asses inside the hangar and fall in!" one of the AIRG leaders barked to the five Japanese nationals who disembarked from the transport plane last.
A black haired man clad in his AIRG-issued fatigues jogged faster. "Yes, sir!"
"Hold on a sec!" A brown haired woman around the same age as the guy jogging faster yelled, prompting two other women to do the same. Though they were carrying Howa Type 89 rifles, the three AIRG women also carried what appeared to be a bag full of medical supplies as well.
A half hour later, every single AIRG personnel stood at attention as a burly looking man arrived at the center of the hangar. The personnel observed the man in question as his shades covered the glare in his eyes, but it appeared that he wasn't angry at all. Outside the hangar, various engineering equipment were being rolled out of the airfield as they made their way into the highway. Several Type 73 heavy trucks also rolled into the vicinity of the hangar as their drivers awaited for the assembly to disperse.
"Soldiers of the Akatsuki International Resorce Group! It is becoming inevitable that the Philippines will become a battleground between our guests and the Chinese military. It will not surprise us one bit if the Russians and Koreans decide to join in this little party as well. That is why we've all been deployed here to assist our friends with the construction of several fortifications and defensive lines." The AIRG leader nodded to the three men who unfolded the map of what appeared to be central Luzon. "Our Vietnamese friends who joined us will help construct the first line that will connect the towns of Narvacan, Bangued, and Tuguegarao. Next, the second line will be constructed by our Thai friends, with the Philippine military assisting them. This second line will go from Agoo, through Baguio City, and through the Magat River, before ending at Palanan. Additional auxiliary defensive lines will be built over there."
"Sir? Will we erect tents so that we can sleep when we're off duty then?" One of the other AIRG member asked as he raised his hand.
The AIRG leader nodded. "Of course. There will be mess halls, infirmaries, and sleeping quarters set up. However, we will also have to assume that the line of defenses that we're building will be where we'll also set up weapons encampments, as well as anti-tank countermeasures." He then continued to point at the map using a stick. "Next, our guests from Australia and New Zealand will oversee the evacuation of civilians into various bunkers that were built during the Tadiar era, and they're scattered throughout southern Luzon, with the exception of civilian volunteers who will join the paramilitary forces. They're only getting a few days' worth of training, so it is our job to make sure they survive."
The man named Sato then raised his hand up. "Sir, what will we do in the meantime? I assume that we're going to build defenses as well?"
"That is correct, Sato. The third defensive line that will go from Masinloc, through Tarlac City, Cabanatuan City, and into both Baler and Dingalan must be built by the Japanese contingent. Additionally, we will establish Gapan as both our supply hub and communications center, and to prevent the enemy forces from reaching the flatter lands of Bulacan Prefecture. Once the civilians willing to leave have been evacuated, they'll build the final line of defense around the Subic Bay naval base, through San Fernando, and into Pulilan and Plaridel. Our main goal overall is to bleed the enemy dry before they reach the old capital. We'll also have to build several fortifications and chokepoints around the old capital region, but time is not on our side. Your orders will be issued through your platoon leaders once you've reached your zone of deployment." The AIRG stood at attention as the three men holding the map folded it back. "Attention!" The personnel stood at attention. "To the trucks, dismissed!"
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"Yuiichi-kun?" One of the female medics said softly as she nudged him awake. "We're here now."
It had been only a few hours since the trucks had departed from the airbase when Yuiichi Sato woke up from his nap. The woman who nudged him awake looked at the other guy who was napping beside Yuiichi. Another medic then nudged the other sleeping man awake.
"We're here already?" The other guy muttered, but could not yawn as one of the platoon leaders opened the truck and banged loudly.
"Move out! Move out! On the double!" The platoon leader barked as everyone exited the truck and stood in front of the banks of the Penaranda River. Once everyone gathered around the platoon leader, he sighed in relief. "I'm glad to see that none of your are harmed, though that can change in a few days' time. Our objective here is to construct pillboxes along the southern banks of the Penaranda River. However, the construction of these fortifications will be round the clock, so your only time for break will be around breakfast, lunch, dinner, and mandatory bedtime. I'm afraid there will be no downtime, as we may end up in a shooting war against the entire ESTO military forces that will invade the Philippines, and that is IF they invade. Is that clear?"
"Yes, sir!" everyone shouted in unision.
"Dismissed!" The AIRG personnel then began to walk towards the engineering vehicles as construction crews and regular Philippine military personnel started to talk to the platoon leaders on what they would be doing.
"Noa! Nagisa! We're needed in the infirmary space!" The woman who nudged Yuiichi spoke loudly.
"Kyogoku, surnames only!" The platoon leader barked sternly as Kyogoku slammed her head with her hand.
"Apologies. I meant, Urahara and Shimazaki! We're needed in the infirmary space immediately," the woman named Yui Kyogoku said as the other two medics later joined her and walked off to another area of the Penaranda River.
