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Philippine Star
Philippine Star
Six Filipino diplomats in Baghdad agreed at the height of the ISIS rampage in Iraq in 2015 that in defending the embassy in the besieged capital they would rather die fighting, or even commit suicide, than be captured alive and publicly executed by the marauding jihadists. The agreement to fight to the death was disclosed by Consul General Elmer G. Cato, one of the six diplomats, in a program on Dec. 10 marking the 125th anniversary today of the martyrdom of Jose Rizal with focus on his writings in La Solidaridad that first saw print in 1889 in Barcelona. The Knights of Rizal New York Chapter …