From Four Nodes of History: The Human Rights Challenge in the Philippine Security Sector that “a short and severe war creates in the aggregate less loss and suffering than a benevolent war indefinitely prolonged.” Bell was acquitted for the death of 100,000 civilians he had penned in the concentration camps. e) Massacre in Malabon (March 25, 1899) Anthony Michea of the Third Artillery wrote: We bombarded a place called Malabon, and then we went in and killed every native we met, men, women, and children. It was a dreadful sight, the killing of the poor creatures. The natives captured some of the Americans and literally hacked them to pieces, so we got orders to spare no one. f) Genocide in the Island of Panay The New York World issue of April 18, 1902, quoting Richard Thomas O’Brien, who was a corporal in Company M, 26th U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiment, based in Miag-ao, Iloilo Province, Panay Island, reported: It was on the 27th day of December, the anniversary of my birth, and I shall never forget the scenes I witnessed on that day. As we approached the town 66 Trembling before the white devils: Female civilians being interrogated by American (c) Public domain soldiers. the word passed along the line that there would be no prisoners taken. It meant that we were to shoot every living thing in sight—man, woman, and child. The first shot was fired by the then first sergeant of our company. His target was a mere boy, who was coming down the mountain path into the town astride of a caribou [sic]. The boy was not struck by the bullet, but that was not the sergeant’s fault. The little Filipino boy slid from the back of his caribou [sic] and fled in terror up the mountain side. Half a dozen shots were fired after