The Book Of Yesterday | April 24

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MACLI-ING DULAG WAS KILLED

April 24, 1980

After several years of struggle by the indigenous Butbut of the Cordillera region against the planned construction of the Chico Dam, An assassination shooting took place on this day in 1980. The victim of this shooting, the 50 -year -old tribal leader of Butbut who Macli-ing Dulag.

That night, ten soldiers came to Dulag's house in Brgy. Bubung, Tinglayan town, Kalinga along with another tribal leader of the other tribe, Pedro Dungoc, and when Dulag did not allow the armed men to let him out of his house, they shot him with their assault rifles. Dulag sustained 10 gunshot wounds that he died instantly, while Dungoc sustained only a few bullet wounds. The instigator of the shooting was identified as Lt. Leodegario Adalem of the 44th Infantry Division. Due to the pressure exerted by the international media to resolve the murder of Dulag, Lt. was indicted in a military court. Adalem and seven of his accomplices, but the accused lieutenant was able to return to service and was promoted to the rank of Major. In the same month that he killed Dulag he was killed in an ambush in 2000.

The killing of Dulag sparked widespread action against the construction of the Chico Dam, which resulted in the abandonment of the World Bank and the mastermind of this project President Ferdinand Marcos in the dam construction plan.

There is little information about Dulag's youthful life, except that he never went to school and served as a messenger for guerrillas in the Cordillera during the Japanese occupation. In 1960, he became the pangat or tribal leader of his tribe in the town of Tinglayan, Kalinga and he also served three times as the captain of Brgy. Link. Their peaceful lives were disrupted when representatives of NAPOCOR or the National Power Corporation arrived to observe the construction of a large dam, which would supply irrigation and electricity to the province. Because the project will affect their ancestral lands and more than 300,000 indigenous people in Kalinga, and they were not even consulted in the feasibility study of the project, Dulag strongly opposed it.

He organized meetings to oppose the construction. Although they received support from the Catholic Bishop's Conference of the Philippines, the government's militarization of the ancestral lands on which the dam was to be built intensified, especially with the enactment of Martial Law in 1972. The authorities tried to bribe Dulag in exchange for he approved of the project, but he was willing to stand by his principles. Many other tribal leaders joined Dulag, so they went through intimidation and imprisonment without an arrest warrant, where Dulag and his comrades were twice imprisoned.

Macli-ing Dulag's name is among those listed in the Bantayog ng mga Bayani as one of the victims of the Marcos regime, who fought for their lives and livelihoods FROM the open usurpation of those in power. Beginning in 1985, the anniversary of Dulag's assassination was commemorated as Cordillera People's Day.

COSMONAUT VLADIMIR KOMAROV DIED

April 24, 1967

A tragic death befell a Russian cosmonaut while performing his duty on this day in 1967.

The then 40-year-old ccosmonaut and member of the Soviet Air Force Colonel Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov was descending back to our planet aboard the spacecraft Soyuz I when his parachute suddenly failed to open, causing his body to gradually burn. in the atmosphere while gushing down to the ground. His burnt and mutilated body was found near the city of Orsk in the province of Orenburg, Russia. After the autopsy on the miserable body of Komarov his remains were immediately cremated and placed inside the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow. Thousands flocked to Komarov's funeral who were considered martyrs for fulfilling his duty.

Komarov also flew into space in 1967, and then returned there when he was selected to try to fly the spacecraft Soyuz I, the first cosmonaut to fly twice into space. After 16 orbits on our planet for more than 24 hours, Soyuz I had to return to earth because the spacecraft's rocket brakes failed to activate. And tragic were the ensuing events when Komarov failed to open his parachute from a height of 23,000 feet. He was the first cosmonaut to die in service while in space. His fellow cosmonaut and friend Yuri Gagarin would next die in 1968. However, the Soviet government remained unmoved to continue space missions.

Komarov became a two-time Hero of the Soviet Union, and a memorial service was offered to him at the site of his fall. Before Neil Armstrong left the Moon in July 1969 they left a memorial plaque in memory of Komarov, Gagarin and three deceased Apollo I astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. A crater named after the Moon and asteroid was named after Komarov in 1971.

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE REMEMBRANCE DAY

April 24, 2021

While we are well aware of the mass murder of Jews by the Nazis during the Holocaust in the middle of World War II, a genocide that took place during World War I has almost been forgotten by many. The victims of this mass murder, were the indigenous Armenians who were mercilessly persecuted and victimized by the brutality of the forces of the Ottoman Empire. Today marks the Remembrance Day of the Armenian Genocide, to also mark the 106th anniversary of the capture by Ottoman authorities of hundreds of Armenian intellectuals, which marked the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.

Armenians have long lived in Ottoman territory, and because most Armenians are Christians they discriminate against Muslims. Their persecution intensified during the First World War. It began when the Ottoman authorities became suspicious of the Armenians, who were collaborating with their Russian opponents. Although it is true that there were native Armenians in the army of Imperial Russia, many Armenians in Ottoman territory were tortured even though they had no connection with the Russians. The Armenians were driven from their land and then marched under the hot sun. The Ottoman Turks ’oppression of the Armenians lasted for almost two years. Many of them were otherwise shot by death squads, raped and even made into harems by Muslims. It is estimated that more than 330,000 Armenians were left behind after the war out of about two million indigenous Armenians. The recorded number of Armenian casualties at the hands of the Ottoman Muslims varied, and no one was held accountable for this crime against them because the Ottomans involved fled their ally Germany. And to this day despite the international community’s recognition of the Ottoman Turks ’massacre of Armenians the Turkish government continues to deny that a genocide was committed by their ancestors on the Armenians.

Together with the constituents of the SocSciclopedia in commemorating and honoring the memory of the Armenians who perished at the hands of the Ottomans, today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. We wish that there would be no more violence of this kind, and that there would be no more people like Armenians, or Jews, or any other race, to be caught up in wars or oppressed by those in power.

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