MICHAEL “XIAO” CHUA
WHEN people visit Fort Santiago, one of the most important historical tourist spots in the country, we, the tour docents, tend to focus on the sacrifices of the freedom fighters who suffered within those walls when it became the military garrison of three of our colonial masters. We also talk about the sacrifices of our national hero José Rizal who was imprisoned for almost two months in its barracks in 1896 before being shot by the Spaniards.