A monument for Luis Taruc and other peasant guerrillas is taking shape in the woodcarving district of Betis of this town in Pampanga province in time for its unveiling in San Luis town by October this year. | ttorejasINQ /PDI
“While growing up, I learned that Huks and non-Huks in our town made many sacrifices at the cost of their lives and their families,” said Manliclic in a phone interview on Friday. “The monument is a humble way of honoring and remembering them.”
Clarin and Sumang were both in their teens when recruited by Taruc, a Huk supremo. Clarin and Sumang, now both in their 80s and still living in San Luis town, are still strong in old age, according to Layug, 27, and the youngest son of ecclesiastical sculptor Wilfredo Tadeo Layug.
The reinterment rites happened after the National Historical Commission of the Philippines installed a marker recognizing Taruc and the Huks in 2017 as heroes. Taruc joined the Socialist Party of the Philippines before it merged with the 1930 Communist Party of the Philippines at the outbreak of WWII. The Huk guerrillas fought the abuses and cruelty of the Japanese Army, war records in the care of the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office showed.
Taruc sought for and won government pensions for the Huk guerrillas, saying they had liberated many areas in Luzon and the Visayas before United States forces returned to force the Japanese Imperial Army out of the country. INQYour subscription has been successful.
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