1950: US National Security Council Authorizes Crushing of Philippine Nationalist Insurgency
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US National Security Council authorizes "all necessary steps" to defeat Huk insurgency in Philippines, giving the thumbs up for paramilitary forces to massacre with impunity any and all villagers unlucky enough to be in their path of destruction
Source: Schirmer and Shalom (1987), The Philippines Reader. South End Press