An Island of Killing and Slaughter: Anti-Guerrilla Warfare and Civilian-Targeted Violence in Panay, 1943

• Main Author: Maddox, Kelly
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: atrocities; guerrilla warfair; Japan; Panay; the Phippines; Second World War; History; Military, War, and Peace; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/peace-justice-strong-institutions/3; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022009419843313?journalCode=jchahttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022009419843313?journalCode=jcha
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Between July and December 1943, Japanese forces in Panay, the Philippines, perpetrated large-scale and widespread atrocities that deliberately targeted the civilian populace of the island. Houses were burned, crops destroyed, livestock slaughtered, and thousands of civilians of all ages and genders...