Note 2 — Chapter XXVI · Murder As a Governmental Agency
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Aguinaldo armed not only ignorant and irresponsible people, but thieves, outlaws and murderers, and turned them loose on the common people with blanket authority to kill whomsoever they would, and they promptly proceeded to exercise it. “Dukut”2 stretched out its bloody hand even in Manila, under the very eye of American officers, and as often as not struck down wholly innocent victims.