few who managed to escape. A captured Japanese diary dispassionately described the fates of the thousands of men imprisoned in Fort Santiago. “150 guerrillas were disposed of tonight,” the unknown diarist wrote on February 7. “I personally stabbed and killed 10.” Two days later he put pen to paper again: “Burned 1,000 guerrillas to death tonight.” He concluded his diary on February 13. “While I was on duty, 10 guerrillas tried to escape. They were stabbed to death,” he wrote. “At 1600, all guerrillas were burned to death.”
