Hukbalahap organization
also: Hucks, Huks, Hux, Hux Bala Hop, huts, Hux rebellion
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Philippinescountry · 14Edward Lansdaleperson · 7Japancountry · 5United Statescountry · 4Ramon Magsaysayperson · 4CIAintelligence service · 4Luis Tarucperson · 3Philippine Communist Partyorganization · 2Vietnamcountry · 2United States Armed Forcesorganization · 2Robert D. Proutyperson · 2Golden Warriors by the Seabook · 1Philippine-U.S. Trade Actevent · 1Koreacountry · 1Frank Wisnerperson · 1Economic Development Corpsorganization · 1Manuel Roxasperson · 1Gabe Kaplanperson · 1
Claims (8)
United States covered_up
Hukbalahap book_quoted
“The American forces disarmed many of the Hux units, removed the local governments, which the Hux had established, and arrested and imprisoned many of their high-ranking members, as well as the leaders of the Philippine Communist Party. And …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 20:12
United States carried_out_attack
Hukbalahap book_quoted
“and led by American officers and composed of U.S. and Filipino soldiers of the so-called U.S. Army forces in the Far East, undertook a police-type action which resulted in the reign of terror against the Huks and suspected sympathizers. Dis…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 21:33
Japan carried_out_attack
Hukbalahap book_quoted
“and led by American officers and composed of U.S. and Filipino soldiers of the so-called U.S. Army forces in the Far East, undertook a police-type action which resulted in the reign of terror against the Huks and suspected sympathizers. Dis…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 21:33
Philippines targeted_for_regime_change
Hukbalahap book_quoted
“bourgeois element in every society that's on the take because that's how they manage the rest of the people. The Huck guerrilla forces had been organized largely at the initiative of the local people in response to the Japanese occupation o…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 25:28
Philippines carried_out_attack
Hukbalahap book_quoted
“For the Hucks had long followed an explicit code of conduct toward the peasants, with punishment metered out for anyone who violated their code of conduct. But on the other occasions, government soldiers were allowed to run amok in the vill…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 46:28
Philippines overthrew
Hukbalahap host_asserted
“By 1953, the Hucks were scattered and demoralized, no longer a serious threat. Although their death would be distributed over the next few years, it is difficult to ascertain to what extent their decline was due to the military force employ…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 56:49
Edward Lansdale carried_out_attack
Hukbalahap host_asserted
“and their lures, their taboos, and the myths, and examined for clues any appeal that they could wean the people off of supporting the insurgents. In one operation, they flew over these areas in small planes hidden by the cloud cover.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 43:47
Edward Lansdale carried_out_attack
Hukbalahap host_asserted
“They allowed the Hux military people to travel along a path and they grabbed the last guy and they murdered him and poked two holes in his neck. And then when the people realized he was missing because he was the last guy in the formation, …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 44:36
Mentions (35)
▶ 19:11
aimed at squashing this resistance army. The Hux, which is a, and it's spelled H-U-K-S, it's a shortening of Hux Bala Hop, which is the name of the people's army against Japan in Tagalog, which is their language. So we're just going to call…
▶ 20:12
The American forces disarmed many of the Hux units, removed the local governments, which the Hux had established, and arrested and imprisoned many of their high-ranking members, as well as the leaders of the Philippine Communist Party. And …
▶ 21:33
and led by American officers and composed of U.S. and Filipino soldiers of the so-called U.S. Army forces in the Far East, undertook a police-type action which resulted in the reign of terror against the Huks and suspected sympathizers. Dis…
▶ 22:02
Japanese are defeated, and yet the Americans use the Japanese that they had not forced to leave the country yet to assist them in defeating the Huks. Now, what's interesting in the book review that we did on Golden Warriors by the Sea Grave…
▶ 23:02
And so during the time that this was happening, the Hucks, the Japanese never got full control of the Philippines. The Hucks fought them tooth and nail the entire time. The Americans all left and they left the Philippine, the Filipino peopl…
▶ 24:28
being chased around by the Japanese and surviving only to have the U.S. basically come in and do the same thing. So this, while the Hucks were engaged in a major effort against the Japanese invaders and the Filipino collaborators and freque…
▶ 25:28
bourgeois element in every society that's on the take because that's how they manage the rest of the people. The Huck guerrilla forces had been organized largely at the initiative of the local people in response to the Japanese occupation o…
▶ 25:59
were no more than a tool of an international communist conspiracy to be opposed at all cost. Others in Washington and Manila, whose reflexes were less knee-jerk, were much more cynical, recognizing that the Hux movement, if its growing infl…
▶ 26:24
would make sweeping reforms of the Philippine society and they no longer would want, because they were very nationalistic and they did not want the American military there because they felt like it made them a target. The centerpiece of the…
▶ 27:48
and the diseases of poverty that the Huck Rebellion is, according to the New York Times, and they called it a communist rebellion, of course, is generally regarded as an outgrowth of the misery and discontent among the peasants of the centr…
▶ 28:20
that the Huk's main impetus was peasant grievance, not Leninist designs, because they were not communist. Nonetheless, the Huk's movement was unmistakably a threat to the neocolonialist and the conditions of the Philippines that the America…
▶ 30:32
participated directly in the suppression of dissident groups in the Philippines is debatable, but we're going to talk about some of them. The Huks, though not trusting Philippine or U.S. authorities enough to voluntarily surrender their arm…
▶ 31:58
If somebody gets elected that they didn't want, they just tell them, no, you can't show up. The purpose of denying those candidates their seats was equally transparent. The government was able to push through the Congress, the controversial…
▶ 33:21
just in case they voted wrong again. According to Louis Turok, in the months following the election, peasant villages were destroyed. More than 500 peasants and their leaders were killed, and about three times that number jailed, tortured, …
▶ 41:27
Carino government was, that its atrocities matched those or attributed to the Hucks, that the government was the rotten with corruption part, not the Hucks. Down to the policeman in the street, Lansdell observed on his own that Carino himse…
▶ 41:55
They were the wave of the future, and violence was the only way for the people to get a government of their own. The police wrote a correspondence for the Saturday Evening Post saying, quote, bands of uniformed thieves and rapists more fear…
▶ 42:24
Accordingly, he told himself that if the huck's over, there would only be another form of injustice by another privileged few, backed by even force. By the next chapter, he had convinced himself that he was working on the side of those comm…
▶ 44:06
and broadcast in tag-along mysterious curses over the villages who dared to give Hux food and shelter. The tactics reportedly succeeded into starving some Hux units into surrendering. Another psyops played on the suspicion dread of the Phil…
▶ 44:36
They allowed the Hux military people to travel along a path and they grabbed the last guy and they murdered him and poked two holes in his neck. And then when the people realized he was missing because he was the last guy in the formation, …
▶ 45:33
Out of this came the Economic Development Corps to lure Hux with a program of resettlement on their own patch of farmland with tools, seeds, cash loans. It was an undertaking wholly inadequate to the land problem, and the number that respon…
▶ 46:01
persuasive arguments. Among other tactics introduced or refined by Lansdell was the production of film and radio broadcasts to explain and justify government actions, infiltration of the government into the ranks of the huts to provide info…
▶ 46:28
For the Hucks had long followed an explicit code of conduct toward the peasants, with punishment metered out for anyone who violated their code of conduct. But on the other occasions, government soldiers were allowed to run amok in the vill…
▶ 46:55
was a technique developed in the art of the Philippines in which soldiers would set unwary village in a grand manner. Prouty being an Air Force retired colonel who worked directly with the CIA, he had described another type of scenario by w…
▶ 48:47
That was how to describe the Hucs. So again, the Viet Cong was used as opposed to the Viet Minh. The Hucs were now wanting to get us out of their country. And basically, the impetus for...…
▶ 56:26
Perhaps even more ironic, in 1957, the Filipino government adopted a law clearly written by Americans, which outlawed both the Communist Party and the Huks, giving as one of the reasons for doing so that this organization aimed at placing t…
▶ 9:43
that had actively fought Japanese occupiers with the U.S. help during World War II. And guess what we're going to do to those people? The same thing we did to the Vietnamese and the same thing that we did to Korea. We're going to kill them.…
▶ 10:13
And they had formed the National Peasants Union. And there were a few other groups, but that was the primary ones that were aggressively anti-imperialism. The alliance won all of the congressional seats for the key parts of the island of Lu…
▶ 10:45
Because of democracy. The Hucks resumed fighting under their warlord leader, Louis Turok. In 1947, the U.S. signed a military base agreement with the Philippines. Providing naval and air bases in exchange for U.S. foreign aid and military a…
▶ 11:15
decided to help the illegitimate government of the Philippines who refused to recognize democracy and elections and fight the quote-unquote guerrillas. The government called its strategy the mailed fist. This approach did little to defuse t…
▶ 11:44
who had been formerly the vice president, enticed the Hucks into negotiations in 1948, but they failed. Then the CIA comes in. Well, the CIA never actually left. They were there in the immediate aftermath of World War II. The agency had a s…
▶ 13:27
that had been appointed in the summer of 1950. Masese, a Filipino congressman and wartime guerrilla fighter who came from Luzon, had a more evolved view of the resistance forces. He began a land redistribution program financed through the g…
▶ 13:53
Masese also benefited from these splits internally and used them to their advantage, strategy of tension. Lansdale began promoting Masese using all the resources of the Wisner operation, eventually making the Filipino a larger-than-life fig…
▶ 14:23
to the standard military protection measures. He used massive sound amplifiers on airplanes to saturate Huck areas with pre-recorded messages and simply noise that capitalized on peasants' superstitions. The land program was adapted to enco…
▶ 17:32
for the reorganization after the Guatemala coup. Meanwhile, the Hux rebellion sputtered on but came close to disappearing. By 1954, almost 10,000 people had been murdered. Half the number were prisoners and a couple of thousand had been wou…
▶ 18:03
Louis Taruc himself surrendered in May of 1954, but at about the same time, Ed Lansdell was promoted for his work in the Philippines. No grass grew under Lansdell's feet. He had already moved on to the next secret war, Vietnam. Vietnam beca…