 His close friends, assistants and soldiers were forced to give up arms, some due to the promise of receiving amnesty.These Nineteen Men, weak from hunger and thirst and racked with rain, were bound together and forced into a black hole of a stone cell on Amadeo Street (now Nineteen Martyrs Street) in Kalibo.Here their hands were manacled and a long bamboo pole was passed through their locked arms across their mangled backs.