Balangiga, Eastern Samar September 28, 2017 President Rodrigo Roa Duterte joined the Balangigan-ons in their 116th Commemoration of the Balangiga Encounter Day at the municipality’s auditorium in Balangiga, Eastern Samar. The Balangiga encounter transpired on September 28, 1901 when the disgruntled natives of Balangiga, led by its local Police Chief Valeriano Abanador, turned against the continue reading : 116th Commemoration of the Balangiga Encounter Day