"Huk" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1963, William J. Pomeroy, The Forest, a Personal Record of the Huk Guerrilla Struggle in the Philippines, page 31:",
          "text": "But sooner or later, there will be decisions to make: I cannot go to your country for I am known as a Huk; you could not stay in mine if your sympathies for us are discovered.",
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          "text": "Whether portrayed as masculine warriors, female seducers, or wayward mothers, Huk Amazons were regarded as extraordinary and unconventional Filipinas: communist guerrillas trained to fight as soldiers against the government and women who lived in the forests, fraternized with men, and had children outside marriage.",
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