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PIO VALENZUELA’S “CRY OF PUGAD LAWIN”

“(painsert nalang ng profile ni dr. pio, wala kasi me net hehez)”

The controversial “cry of pugad lawin” which has been confirmed by the other witnesses of the event
that Dr. Pio Valuenzuela is the second and later version of the first rally of the katipunan by Dr.
Valuenzuela himself.

First version: Is when he gave the told of the “Cry of Balintawak” as the staging point of the Philippine
revolution.

 He related the first version, when events were still fresh from his memory and he abandoned
the revolutionary cause after its outbreak and fled to Binan, Laguna for safety.
 Taking advantage to General Ramon Blanco’s proclamation of amnesty of the revolutionists,
Valenzuela returned to Manila on September 3, 1896, and surrendered to Blanco.
 He was imprisoned in Fort Santiago, where upon investigation, he told Francisco Olive, the
Spanish investigator that the ‘Cry’ was staged at Balintawak on Wednesday, August 26, 1896.

“the first place of refuge of Andres Bonifacio, Emilio Jacinto, Procopio Bonifacio, Teodoro Plata, Aguedo
del Rosario, and myself was Balintawak, the first five arriving there on 19 August, and I on 20 August 1896.
The first place where some 500 members of the Katipunan met was the house and yard of Apolonio Samson
at Kangkong, on 22 August. Aside from the persons mentioned above, among those were Briccio Pantas,
Alejandro Santos, Ramon Bernardo, Apolonio Samson and others. Here, views were only exchanged, and
no resolution was debated or adopted. It was at Pugad Lawin, in the house, storehouse and yard of Juan
Ramos, son of Melchora Aquino, where over 1,000 members of the Katipunan met and carried out
considerable debate and discussion on 23 August 1896. The discussion was on whether or not the
revolution against the Spanish government should be started on 29 August 1896. Only one an protested
and fought against war, and that those present at this meeting were Enrique Cipriano, Alfonso Pacheco,
Tomas Remigio, and Sinfroso San Pedro. After the tumultuous meeting many of those present tore their
cedula certificates and shouted ‘Long Live the Philippines!”

“(mane, palagay nalang tong sinabi ni Dr. Pio sa isang slide o kaya dalawa kung di kasya, para bang
magiging letter sya tapos ung brown na papel background para kahit diko na basahin ipapaliwanag ko
nalang)”

GREGORIA DE JESUS’ VERSION OF THE FIRST “CRY”

(August 25, 1896)

“(dito din lagay mo pics at profile ni Gregoria De Jesus)”

Gregoria de Jesus was one of the participants in the drama of the Philippine Revolution of 1896,
she was the wife of Supremo Andre Bonifacio, and the “Lakambini of the Katipunan”.

 She was the custodian of the secret documents, seal and some weapons of the Katipunan, and
constantly risked her life in safeguarding them. After the outbreak of the Revolution, while
Bonifacio and his men gathered in the hills of Balintawak for the war of liberation.
  When warned that the Spanish authorities were coming to arrest her, she fled to Manila and
later joined her husband in the mountains and shared the hardships and sacrifices of the a
patriot’s life with him.
 According to her version of the First “Cry”, it occurred near Caloocan on August 25, 1896 as
follows:

“The activitities of the Katipunan had reached nearly all corners of the Philippine archipelago, so that
when its existence was discovered and some of the members arrested, we immediately returned to
Caloocan. However, as we were closely watched by the agents of the Spanish authorities. Andres
Bonifacio and other Katipuneros left the town some days. It was then the uprising began, with the first
cry for freedom on August 25, 1896. Meanwhile I was with my parents. Through my friends, I learned
that the Spanish were coming to arrest me. Immediately, I fled town at eleven o’ clock at night, secretly
going through the rice fields to La Loma, with the intention of returning to Manila. I was treated like an
apparition, for sad to say, in every house where I tried to get a little rest, I was driven away as if the
people therein were frightened for their own lives. Later, I found out that the occupants of the house
which I had visited were seizes and severely punished and some even exiled. One of them was an uncle of
mine whom I had visited on that night to kiss his hand, and he died in exile.”

“( eto mane maganda din syang gawin don katulad sa taas, tapos I kuwento mo nalang sya)

THE “CRY OF BAHAY TORO”

(August 24, 1896)

By Santiago Alvarez

(picture nya nalang ilagay mo dito kasi na tackle nman na sya before)

Santiago Alvarez write another version of “Cry” which launched the Philippine Revolution. He was a
prominent Katipunan warlord of Cavite, son of Mariano Alvarez, and Valenzuela. He was not an
eyewitness of the historic event.

Although he was in Cavite at the time, this is his version of the first “Cry” as follows:

 Sunday, August 23, 1896

As early as 10 o’clock in the morning, at the barn of Kabesang Melchora, katipuneros met
together. About 500 of these arrived, ready and eager to join the Supremo and his men.
 Monday , August 24, 1896
There were about 1,000 katipuneros. . . the Supremo decided to hold a meeting inside the big
barn. Under his leadership, the meeting began at 9 o’clock noon when the meeting adjourned
amidst loud cries of “long live the Son of the Country”
 THE “CRY OF BALINTAWAK”

(August 26, 1896)

By Guillermo Masangkay

Katipunan General Guillermo Masangkay, he was bonifacio’s childhood friend. He’s the
eyewitness of the historic first rally of the Philippine Revolution of 1896 occurred at the rustic barrio of
Balintawak, a few kilometers north of the city of Manila on August 26, 1896.

 Similarly, this date and site were American regime after having consulted the surviving
katipuneros and prestigious historians at the time.
 A monument depicting the event was erected near the site financed by the people and was
inaugurated on September 11, 1911.

In his memoirs, General Masangkay recounts the “Cry of Balintawak” as follows:

 On August 26th 1896, a big meeting was held in Balintawak at the house of Apolonio Samson,
then the Cabeza of the barrio of Caloocan.
 At about nine o’clock in the morning of August 26, the meeting was opened with Andres
Bonifacio presiding and Emilio Jacinto acting as Bonifacio’s secretary. The purpose was to discuss
when the uprising was to take place. The three delegates opposed to starting the revolution too
early.
 Andres Bonifacio left the session hall and talked to the people who are waiting outside. He
appealed to them “You remember the fate of our countrymen who were shot in Bagumbayan.
Should we return now to the towns, the Spaniards will only shoot us? Our organization has been
discovered and we are all marked men. If we don’t start the uprising, the Spaniards will get us
anyway. What then do you say?”
 “Revolt” they shouted.
 Bonifacio said, “if it is true that you are ready to revolt. I want to see you destroy your cedulas. It
will be the sign that all of us have declared our severance from the Spaniards.”
 They pulled out and tore their cedulas and when the people’s pledge was obtained by Bonifacio,
he returned to the session hall and informed the leaders of what took place outside.
 He said “The people want to revolt, and they have destroyed their cedulas, so now we have to
start the uprising; otherwise the people by hundreds will be shot.” And when this was decided
the people outside shouted “Long Live the Philippine Republic”
 At 5 o’clock in the afternoon, the guards who were up in trees to watch for any possible
intruders and this gave the warning that the Spaniards were coming.
 Led by Bonifacio, Jacinto and other Leaders of the Katipunan, they distributed strategic position
and prepared to attack the civil guard. Shots were then fired by the civil guards and that was the
beginning of the fire which later become such a huge conflagration.