Civil Guard (Philippines)

[1] The Guardia Civil was introduced to the Philippines by the Spanish colonial government in 1868, during the term of Governor-General Carlos María de la Torre y Navacerrada.They could arrest people upon suspicion alone, and the Spanish colonial government did not bar the Guardia Civil from using torture techniques in interrogation processes.[1] During the first phase of the Philippine Revolution (1896–1897), the Guardia Civil constituted around 60 percent of the native component of the Spanish military forces in the colony.In that same part of the book, it is recorded that another certain fictional character named Andong Sintó-sintó was allegedly sent to the capital, Manila, to be imprisoned for merely picking bananas for supper.[5] In the fifth chapter of El filibusterismo, another fictional character cochero or coachman is allegedly held up, hit and taken to prison by an officer of the Guardia Civil for failing to show his cédula (a term now used for the community tax certificate).
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