PHILIPPINES: Samar Barrio Women and Children

Samar is home to many of the women selling their sexual labor in the bars. It is extremely poor but once was highly populated, prosperous with old growth forests covering 90% of the land and where fishing and agriculture were primary occupations. Samar was the island that during the Philippine-American War, U.S. General Smith ordered all personnel over age 10 to be killed. And they were.