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What were the last scenes
leading to Bonifacio’s death?
On April 26, 1897, Bonifacio
was arrested. Tried by a military court in Maragondon, Cavite, for only 12
days, he was charged with treason for trying to overthrow Emilio Aguinaldo and
his government.
As if his trial was not
controversial enough, Ambeth Ocampo even mentioned in his book, “Bones of
Contention,” what he called an “ugly bit of history” in the narrative: the
supposed rape of Gregoria de Jesus:
“Bonifacio in his testimony
told the court that Col. Yntong was forcing his wife into an empty house ‘sa
talagang kilos na ilugso ang kapurihan’ but this was averted when the other
officers objected. Later in Indang, Col. Yntong attempted to rape Aling Oryang
again but this time, Bonifacio pleaded with Tomas Mascardo who mercifully
intervened...It was possible that one of the motives for raping Aling Oryang
was that it would further humiliate Bonifacio.”
Yntong is Col. Agapito Bonzon,
head of the officers sent by the new government to arrest Bonifacio.
Bonifacio and his brother
Procopio were sentenced to death on May 8, 1897, supposedly on Aguinaldo's
orders. Two days after, they were brought to Mt Nagpatong, where Gen Lazaro
Makapagal carried out the sentence and shot the brothers. This is the
widely-accepted ending to the life of the Father of the Philippine Revolution.
That is, until the 1950s and
1960s, when Ocampo said another narrative from Guillermo Masangkay, one of the
first members of the Katipunan, claimed Bonifacio was hacked to death with
bolos.
“As they did not want to waste
precious ammunition they decided to use bladed weapons.”
Source: Rappler
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The Death of Bonifacio
On May 10, 1897, four days
after his trial, Andres Bonifacio and his brother, Procopio, were fetched from
their prison by soldiers led by Lazaro Macapagal. They were to be taken to Mt.
Tala, where Macapagal would then open a letter of instruction given him by Gen.
Mariano Noriel on what to do with his prisoners.
On the way to their
destination, the brothers, sensing something tragic would befall them, asked Macapagal
if they would be shot. Macapagal denied this. Andres, heavily wounded in his
neck and arm, suggested then that Macapagal open the letter, as he was not sure
that he could travel the whole distance.
As they neared Mt. Tala and
with Mt. Buntis behind them, Macapagal finally opened the letter given him and
read aloud the command of the Council of War to shoot the Bonifacio brothers.
Procopio was shot first.
The wounded Andres allegedly
ran to the woods, but was eventually found by Macapagal and his soldiers.
Macapagal claimed that Bonifacio was shot, and then buried by his men.
Another eyewitness account,
however, states that the Supremo was not shot. He was said to have been hacked
to death with bolos and bayonets by Macapagal’s soldiers.
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