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This list of conflicts in the Philippines is a timeline of events that includes pre-colonial wars, Spanish–Moro conflict, Philippine revolts against Spain, battles, skirmishes, and other related items that have occurred in the Philippines' geographical area.
Individuals pardoned by Manuel Roxas.Among them are beneficiaries of Proclamation No. 51 which is a general amnesty for people charged for collaborating with Imperial Japan during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II.
The use of theatre as a venue for protest in the Philippines [1] has had a long history dating back to its colonial history, and continuing into the present day. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It played a particularly important part [ 4 ] [ 5 ] during the Philippine American War, the Second World War, and during the Dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
The Wall of Remembrance at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani commemorates the martyrs and heroes who fought the authoritarian regime of Ferdinand Marcos regardless of ideology. . Many of the individuals honored belong to the "middle force" opposition, including religious workers, businessmen, social workers, academics, artists, mainstream opposition politicians, and journali
The 1990 Mindanao revolt was an uprising that occurred in parts of the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines.It began when Alexander Noble, a dissident Philippine Army colonel linked to the 1989 Philippine coup attempt against President Corazon Aquino, and his supporters, which included Mindanaoan separatists, seized two military garrisons in Cagayan de Oro and Butuan without firing a ...
The Philippines has adhered to the UDHR through the Bill of Rights, and continued to create laws and policies that cater to a specific sector, like the Labor Code and the Indigenous Peoples' Rights. [clarification needed] Besides the UDHR, the Philippines is a signatory to 8 of the 9 UN core human rights treaties, namely:
Irreconcilables, in the context of the Philippines, were a group of former insurrectionists who were deported from the Philippines to the island of Guam by the U.S. Military Government of the Philippines because of their unwillingness to swear allegiance to the government of the United States after their capture by U.S. forces during the Philippine-American War [1]
The Spanish–American War reached the Philippines on May 1 with the Battle of Manila Bay. Aguinaldo returned from exile, set up a new government, and proclaimed the independence of the Philippines on June 12, 1898, in Kawit, Cavite. [23] Aguilnaldo gained support even from Ilustrados who had opposed the initial revolution.