Forgotten Guerrilleras

One guerrillera of WWII was Ana Omega of Leyte, a schoolteacher who formed her own guerrilla unit and served as an intelligence officer against the Japanese Imperial Army. The government’s non-recognition of Omega and other women guerrillas reflects the experience of women revolutionaries like Espiridiona Dionisio, sister of Andres Bonifacio and wife of Teodoro Plata. Dionisio never received any pension from the government, not as a dependent of veterans of the 1896 revolution nor as a revolutionary herself (she worked as a secretary, spy, and utility girl for the Katipunan).