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Textbooks often mention the death of GOMBURZA while forgetting about Francisco Zaldua, a mutineer who was executed on the same date and place as the three secular priests.

Zaldua (sometimes spelled as "Saldua") was the state witness who incriminated GOMBURZA. Some believe that he was bribed to say that Father Burgos was the one who instigated the 1872 Cavite Mutiny. Or perhaps Zaldua thought he would be spared from ex*****on if he implicated the three innocent priests.

On 15 February 1872, Zaldua was sentenced to death by garrote. Two days later, he was killed in front of a crowd of forty thousand.

He was the first to be killed among the four that day.

Sources:
"Remembering the GOMBURZA: In Anticipation of the 150th Anniversary of their Martyrdom in 2022" by Francis Kristoffer L. Pasion

nhcp.gov.ph/remembering-the-gomburza-in-anticipation-of-the-150th-anniversary-of-their-martyrdom-in-2022/

"Let us now praise a not-so-famous man" by Luis H. Francia

https://globalnation.inquirer.net/23991/let-us-now-praise-a-not-so-famous-man

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