On President Aguinaldo ordering the assassination of Luna

ALAM NYO BA?

In 1933 General Pantaleon Garcia made a startling revelation that President Emilio Aguinaldo ordered him to assassinate General Antonio Luna in 1899. Said Garcia:


"Before General Luna was killed, I received a verbal order from General Emilio Aguinaldo that I will lead the projected assassination of Gen. Luna, which would be done at Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija.

It so happened that , I had not yet fully recuperated from my illness, so that I was unable to perform that order. After some days passed I received the news that Gen. Luna was murdered at Cabanatuan by the soldiers from Kawit."

FACT:

It was because of politics that Aguinaldo was accused, quite understandably, by a former subordinate officer. When Pantaleon Garcia made the statement in 1933, he was Sergeant-at-arms of the Philippine Senate of which Quezon was the President, and that about this time the Aguinaldo-Quezon political controversy was "already going full blast with the Commonwealth Presidential election barely two years away."

Evidently the Garcia statement has political undertones tending to becloud the image of General Aguinaldo. The Garcia statement should therefore be viewed "in the light of the Aguinaldo-Quezon political controversy."

[NOTE: The descendants of Aguinaldo and some writers believed that Aguinaldo is not personally involved in the death of Gen. Luna and maintained that the murder was merely the "spontaneous and voluntary action of the Kawit Presidential Guards" and not a premeditated murder or assassination.]

----By Ian-James R. Andres---

References:

Alfredo B. Saulo,
Emilio Aguinaldo: Generalissimo and President of the First Philippine Republic, First Republic in Asia
Phoenix Publishing House, 1983

Philippine Social Sciences and Humanities Review,
Volumes 36-37, 1971

Biography of Gen. Pantaleon Garcia
Elises Clan of Cavite
elisescavite.webs.com

Ellen Tordesillas
Aguinaldo Descendant says Antonio Luna not Assassinated
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/…/aguinaldo-descendant-says-anto…

(Portrait of General Pantaleon Garcia courtesy of Elises Clan of Cavite page)

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