Killing Machine

The Filipino-American War pictorial series #2

garotte

Garrote. This machine has an official record of killing thirty-one men.

31 of our ancestors who resisted a new colonizing tyrant after successfully kicking out one.

The anti-colonial struggle came at a very steep price.

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One Response to “Killing Machine”

  1. badoodles.wordpress.com Says:
    8 June 2007 at 1:46 pm | Reply

    we’re lucky we were not born that time. tsk! tsk! i’d rather shout the guy “why not just shoot me?!”. that’s killing me softly.

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