In Samar General Vicente Lucban ordered, on February 1, 1901, that persons who collected food for the enemy be killed, as well as those who “finding themselves in our camp pass to the enemy without previous permission from this government.”[16]
The Philippine Assembly in Session.
In Leyte, Honesto Ruiz warned all his “soldiers and bolo-men that whenever a real Americanista, like the police and volunteers, is caught he will be killed.” On August 11, 1900, he reported to General Moxica that “the result is that every day they are killing traitors to our country.”[17]
The following is a sample order for the assassination of an obnoxious individual:—
“October 4, 1900.
“Confidential.
“To the Local Chiefs of Sogod, Kabalián, Anajauan, Hinundayan, and Hinunangan (Leyte):
“Immediately upon the appearance in the town under your jurisdiction of the traitor to the Mother Country, Severino Komandao, you will secure his person and send him to these headquarters under the proper guard; or if that person should come into the town followed by an American force, you shall try to have him killed by treachery (traidoramente), by ‘Dukut’ (assassination), for this is what a Filipino deserves who does not know how to respect his own land and proceeds to injure the beautiful ideal that we have in view.
“Return the present communication, treating it as confidential. Health and fraternity.