On this day, March 8, in 1906

Close to a thousand Moro women, children and men lay dead on the ground of Bud Dajo in the Philippines, massacred by the American Military. Only 6 Moro rebels survived this First Battle of Bud Dajo. The Philippine-American war began after the US purchased the Philippines from Spain at the end of the Spanish-American war in 1898. This was despite the fact that the Philippines had just declared independence from Spain. The First Philippine Republic fiercely resisted American colonization until their defeat in 1902. The Philippines were not granted independence until 1946.