Mariano Rubio Marcos (1895 - 1945)

Born 21 Apr 1895 in Batac, Ilocos Norte, Captaincy General of the Philippines

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Died 8 Mar 1945 at age 49 in La Union, Commonwealth of the Philippines

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Biography

Documents at the Philippine Archives Collection at the U.S. National Archives in Washington D.C. state that Marcos was tried and executed by the Luzon Guerrilla Armed Forces (LGAF), a guerrilla force fighting the Japanese under the command of Major Robert Lapham. This is disputed by accounts told by the Marcos family.

In Lapham's account, Mariano Marcos was tried, and having "readily confessed," was executed on March 8, 1945 as a Japanese collaborator by the Luzon Guerrilla Armed Forces. Mariano Marcos was drawn and quartered - his hands were tied to two carabaos, which were then whipped to run in opposite directions. His body parts were then hung by ropes on the branches of a large tree in what is now the Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University's Bacnotan campus, as a demonstration of what would happen to those who collaborated with the Japanese.

In a book written by Lapham later, he adds that some of the guerrillas who were allowed to participate in the execution were related to Julio Nalundasan.

The version of the story told by the Marcos family says that Mariano Marcos was executed by the Japanese.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Mariano Marcos