THE killing of national hero Andres Bonifacio is not just a gruesome deed committed by Filipinos against their fellow countrymen. It is also a battle of controversial documents and texts.

Twenty years after the 1872 revolt, Filipino nationalists began to organize secretly. In 1892 Jose Rizal founded Liga Filipina, and in 1895 Andres Bonifacio organized the Katipunan, a fraternal ...