Regarding the massacres in Bud Dajo, Major Hugh Scott, the District Governor of Sulu Province, where the incidents occurred, recounted that those who fled to the crater declared they had no intention of fighting, ran up there only in fright, and had some crops planted and desired to cultivate them. The description of the engagement as a battle is disputed because of both the overwhelming firepower of the attackers and the lopsided casualties. The author Vic Hurley wrote, By no stretch of the imagination could Bud Dajo be termed a 'battle'. Mark Twain strongly condemned the incident in several articles he published,