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| Saturday, April 19, 2008 |
| Dayang Asu (The Continuation) |
Here's what I found on the Net:
Tagalogs coined the term [dugong aso] out of bitterness over the (supposedly) treacherous role of Kapampangans -- the Macabebes in particular -- in the capture of the Tagalog revolutionary leader, Emilio Aguinaldo. But they coined it out of ignorance, because the real traitors in that sorry, sordid episode were not the Macabebes, who were mere foot soldiers, but the three key players: the Spaniard Lazaro Segovia, who had defected to Aguinaldo's camp and defected again to the American side; the Ilocano Cecilio Segismundo, Aguinaldo's emissary who had revealed to the Americans Aguinaldo's hiding place; and most significantly, the Tagalog Hilario Tal Placido, another defector from Aguinaldo's army, who led the entrapment of his former leader. It was the hapless Macabebes who later bore the full brunt of the nation's anger, but they were never defectors and definitely never traitors, because they had consistently been against Aguinaldo right from the beginning. Because of that event in Palanan, Isabela in 1901 -- or probably even earlier events during colonial times, when the Macabebes fought side by side with the Spanish Army -- Kapampangans have been called names, the most painful of which is dugong aso, which means that Kapampangans were so blindly loyal to their colonial masters that they would do practically anything, including betraying and killing their fellow Filipinos. Only Tagalogs could have coined this Tagalog term. They don't know, or choose to ignore, that it was the Kapampangans, not the Tagalogs, who led the first resistance against Spaniards when they landed in Luzon in 1571, and the first Filipino to die fighting invaders was a Kapampangan from Macabebe. And 300 years later, when Filipinos finally decided to end the Spanish regime, Kapampangans were among the first to revolt; even poets took up arms and shed their blood in the name of freedom -- which is why one of the eight rays of the sun in the Philippine flag belongs to Pampanga. And they call Kapampangans traitors? History is full of Kapampangans who helped this nation achieve independence, from Francisco Maniago of Mexico town who led the Kapampangan Revolt of 1660 that nearly sparked a nationwide uprising 230 years before the Revolution, to Agapito Conchu of Guagua who was one of the Trece Martires de Cavite; Francisco Makabulos of Lubao who liberated Tarlac and Pangasinan even after Aguinaldo had abandoned them; Maximino Hizon of Mexico who harassed American troops until his capture and exile; Isabelo del Rosario of San Fernando who smashed his violin right before his American executioners hanged him; Jose Alejandrino of Arayat who helped Rizal publish El Filibusterismo; Nicolasa Dayrit, Praxedes Fajardo and all those women who risked their lives supporting the cause of freedom; the poets Juan Crisostomo Soto, Aurelio Tolentino, Felix Galura, Mariano Proceso Pabalan y Byron and Monico Mercado who fought the colonizers with their pen as well as their sword.
Taken from:
Tantingco: Dugong aso no more
By Robby Tantingco
Peanut Gallery
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/pam/2007/05/22/oped/robby.tantingco.peanut.gallery.htmlLabels: continuation, dugong aso, real traitor |
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