The First Cry of the Rebellion: Where and When Did it Really Happened? — Transcript

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1. 0:00the cry of the rebellion
2. 0:02when and where did it really happen
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21. 0:45the cry of the rebellion or el grito the
22. 0:48rebellion in the 19th century was the
23. 0:51beginning of the philippine revolution
24. 0:53that aimed to overthrow the spanish
25. 0:56government here in the philippines it
26. 0:58happened
27. 0:59in august 1896 somewhere in the
28. 1:02northeast of manila in which andres
29. 1:05burifacio led the declaration of their
30. 1:08rebellion against the spanish colonial
31. 1:10power
32. 1:11however controversy about this
33. 1:13particular event actually arises
34. 1:15especially on the specific dates and
35. 1:18places where this cry particularly
36. 1:20happened
37. 1:21according to theodore gonzillo
38. 1:24the event goes on when andres munifacio
39. 1:26led the tearing of the sedulas in front
40. 1:29of the capiconeros
41. 1:31and uh some writers on the other hand
42. 1:33identified a cry in which
43. 1:35emilio aguinaldo commissioned a hymn of
44. 1:37the balintawak to a renewed struggle
45. 1:40after the part of the act of the piac
46. 1:42number two film so there was also this
47. 1:45idea of the cry of balintawak
48. 1:48or the idea of the cry of puget loving
49. 1:51so this is now the controversy
50. 1:53which is which
51. 1:55which
52. 1:56is the truth
53. 1:57where did it really happen was it in
54. 1:58balintawak
55. 2:00or when did it really happen
56. 2:07and the first source was coming from
57. 2:08guillermo
58. 2:09the second source was coming from
59. 2:12eo valenzuela
60. 2:17first cry of the rebellion according to
61. 2:19the account of guillermo
62. 2:22on august 26 a big meeting was held in
63. 2:25balinto
64. 2:26at the house of apollonio samson then
65. 2:28cabeza of that barrio of kalokan
66. 2:31among those who attended i remember were
67. 2:34bonifacio
68. 2:43enrique pacheco and francis carrion
69. 2:46they were all leaders of the katimpuran
70. 2:49and composed the board of directors of
71. 2:51the organization
72. 2:52delegates from bulacan cabanatuan cavite
73. 2:56and were also present
74. 2:58at about nine o'clock in the morning
75. 3:01in the morning of august 26 the meeting
76. 3:04was opened with andres munifacio
77. 3:06presiding and emilio was into acting as
78. 3:09secretary
79. 3:10the purpose was to discuss when the
80. 3:12uprising was to take place
81. 3:16yo pantas
82. 3:17and p valenzuela were all opposed to
83. 3:19starting the revolution too early
84. 3:22andres burifacio sensing that he would
85. 3:25lose in the discussion then left the
86. 3:28session whole and talk to the people who
87. 3:31were waiting outside for the result of
88. 3:33the meeting of the leaders
89. 3:35he told the people that the leaders were
90. 3:38arguing against starting the revolution
91. 3:40early and appealed to them in fiery
92. 3:43speech which he said
93. 3:46you remember the fate of our countrymen
94. 3:49who were shot in baghumbayan
95. 3:51should we return to the towns now the
96. 3:54spaniards will only shoot us
97. 3:57our organization has been discovered and
98. 4:00we are all mark men
99. 4:02if we don't start the uprising the
100. 4:04spaniards will get us anyway
101. 4:07what then do you say
102. 4:10revolt
103. 4:11the people shouted as one burifah should
104. 4:14then ask the people to give a pledge
105. 4:17that they were to revolt he told them
106. 4:19that the sign of slavery of the
107. 4:20filipinos were
108. 4:22the sedula
109. 4:25tax charged to its citizen
110. 4:28if it is true that you are ready to
111. 4:30revolt i want you to destroy your
112. 4:33cedulas it will be a sign that all of us
113. 4:36have declared our severance from the
114. 4:38spaniards
115. 4:40this source was also cited by grigorio
116. 4:42zaide and sonya said in their book on
117. 4:44the documentary sources of the
118. 4:46philippine history so this was coming
119. 4:48from guillermo
120. 4:50and definitely the document would
121. 4:52actually tell us that it was uh
122. 4:55the pride of rebellion was in balintawak
123. 4:57that's why they call it the cry of
124. 5:00balintawak
125. 5:02on the other hand the account of pio
126. 5:04valenzuela actually tells us a different
127. 5:06story because
128. 5:08valenzuela actually writes that it was
129. 5:11not happened in balintawa but it was
130. 5:13happened in
131. 5:14lawyer that's why gregory yosai and
132. 5:16sonya sade called it also as the cry of
133. 5:19loving and the date that pio valenzuela
134. 5:23also talked about was not august 26 but
135. 5:26actually august 20. let's read
136. 5:29the first place of refuge of andres
137. 5:36aguero del
138. 5:40the first five arriving there on august
139. 5:4219 and i and on august 20 1896.
140. 5:47the first place where some 500 members
141. 5:50of the katipunan met on august 22 1896
142. 5:54was the house and yard of apollonio
143. 5:56sansol at cancun aside from the persons
144. 5:59mentioned above among those were
145. 6:02there were british jopantas alejandro
146. 6:05santiago ramon bernardo apollonio samson
147. 6:09and others
148. 6:10here views were only exchanged and no
149. 6:13resolution was debated or adapted it was
150. 6:16at puget lawwin the house store
151. 6:19house and yard of juan ramos son of
152. 6:21melchor aquino where over 1 000 members
153. 6:25of the katipunan met and carried out
154. 6:27considerable debate and discussion on
155. 6:30august 23 1896. the discussion was on
156. 6:34whether or not the revolution against
157. 6:36the spanish government should be started
158. 6:39on august 29 1896.
159. 6:42after the
160. 6:44multis meeting many of those present
161. 6:47tore their sedula certificates and
162. 6:50shouted
163. 6:51long lived the philippines long live the
164. 6:54philippines
165. 6:55now let us go to the analysis of these
166. 6:57two primary sources
167. 6:59who is more credible
168. 7:04or po valenzuela
169. 7:07definitely
170. 7:09in the document that we actually read
171. 7:12the name of guillermo was not mentioned
172. 7:15right
173. 7:16whereas in the account of guillermo
174. 7:19sankari the name of pi valenzuela was
175. 7:22mentioned there that p venezuela was
176. 7:23present of that particular event
177. 7:26and in the account of pia valenzuela
178. 7:30he also mentioned that he was there
179. 7:32so in other words
180. 7:34it could have been that people as well
181. 7:36as account is more credible to tell us
182. 7:37of the truth about the cry of the
183. 7:39rebellion from these two eyewitnesses
184. 7:42accounts that we actually presented
185. 7:44indeed uh there are some certain
186. 7:45disagreements of the
187. 7:47the witnesses
188. 7:49there are there are many places
189. 7:51mentioned
190. 7:55and there were different dates 23 24 20
191. 7:5925 26 and so on on the other hand the
192. 8:03account of pia valenzuela have also some
193. 8:05inconsistencies why because
194. 8:07during the time that valencia valenzuela
195. 8:10was interviewed by the spanish
196. 8:12investigator he told that the cry
197. 8:14happened in balinto
198. 8:16on wednesday of that august 26 1896
199. 8:20later on when he wrote his memoirs of
200. 8:23the revolution
201. 8:25he said that it happened in bugat lauren
202. 8:27on august 23
203. 8:291896 so that's why we also have to look
204. 8:32at the inconsistencies of
205. 8:35venezuela
206. 8:36it might be also that maybe because he
207. 8:39forgot the dates or something that might
208. 8:41happen or maybe
209. 8:43venezuela was just lying
210. 8:45to the spanish investigators that was
211. 8:48also to create confusions
212. 8:50to
213. 8:51the spanish investigator investigation
214. 8:54however according to guerrero
215. 8:56incarnation and villegas
216. 8:58all of these places mentioned like the
217. 9:00hong kong
218. 9:01tawa
219. 9:02and bhaitoro
220. 9:04are actually the same in balintawak
221. 9:07and that's a part of the oakland and now
222. 9:09this is already in a question city
223. 9:12as for the dates
224. 9:14it could be historically that it was due
225. 9:17to the fact that bonifacio and his men
226. 9:19the moneros were actually moving from
227. 9:21one place to
228. 9:22another
229. 9:23you know because they were actually
230. 9:26avoiding
231. 9:27by uh they were avoiding the troops of
232. 9:29the spanish government
233. 9:34was a secret society that aimed to
234. 9:37overthrow the spanish government but
235. 9:41and the caterpillars like nefasho and
236. 9:43his men were now hunted
237. 9:45by the spanish guards and so they have
238. 9:48to move from one place to another to
239. 9:50high
240. 9:53for me
241. 9:54it doesn't matter where it doesn't
242. 9:56matter when did it happen because what
243. 9:58matters most is that
244. 10:00bonifacio and his men started the
245. 10:02revolution
246. 10:07that was the beginning
247. 10:08that
248. 10:10became the revolutionary government now
249. 10:13they separated
250. 10:14themselves
251. 10:16from the government of spain that was
252. 10:18the beginning that they were starting to
253. 10:23revolt against the spanish government
254. 10:26on the rebellion was the official start
255. 10:29of the revolution against spain
256. 10:39they have started the revolution and
257. 10:42because of that revolution