DIASPORA OF THE MOROS

Jeraline Jel S. Laban

IS A SCATTERED POPULATION WITH A COMMON ORIGIN IN A SMALLER GEOGRAPHIC AREA. DIASPORA CAN ALSO REFER TO THE MOVEMENT OF THE POPULATION FROM ITS ORIGINAL HOMELAND.

What does the word

DIASPORA means?

MASSACRE

IN THE

ROCK

PRES. DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL

Philippine president who

was close to the hearts

of the Moros

FERDINAND MARCOS

Formally put forth the

Sabah Claim in 1962.

based on the sovereignty

once exercised by the Sulu

sultanate over the

Northern Borneo territory.

OPERATION MERDEKA

led by Diosdado Macapagal, then later on Ferdinand

Marcos

Manuel Syquio as project leader and then Maj.

Eduardo Abdul Latif Martelino as operations officer

THE OBJECT OF THIS PROGRAM

the annexation of Sabah to the Republic of the

Philippines.

a monthly allowance

member of an elite unit in the Philippine

Armed Forces

From August to December 1967, the young recruits

underwent training in Simunul. (JABIDAH)

December 30 1967, 135 to 180 recruits boarded a

Philippine Navy vessel for the island of Corregidor in

Luzon for “specialized training”

Second phase

Discovered their true mission.

Non payment of monthly allowance

Demanded to return home

JABIDAH MASSACREMarch 17, 1968

Rocky Isand of Corregidor

victims were part of the 180 trainees (mostly Moros) , who were undergoing training on jungle warfare, sabotage and infiltration

which members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) are said to have massacred a number of Moro Muslim recruits who were escaping their covert training to reclaim Sabah

Jibin Arola

THE FOUNDING OF MIM

The bloodpath at Corregidor did not only

anger the Malaysians including Sabah

Chief Minister Datu Tun Mustapha

Haron, but jolted the Moros and their

particularly Cotabato Governor Datu Udtog

Matalam.

DATU UDTOG MATALAM

Create Islamic Republic of Mindanao

May 1, 1968, organized the Muslim and later the

Mindanao Independence Movement

IN THE MANIFESTO ISSUED BY THE MIM, THE FF. WERE CONSIDERED

That it is a recognized principle underlying the Charter of the United Nations and the Declaration of Human Rights that all peoples consisting of the minority in a given state possess the right to self-determination.

That the Islamic World Congress has affirmed the above principles, particularly the right of Muslims who are the minority in non-Muslim states, to self determination;

That the systematic extermination of the Muslim youth – like the Corregidor Fiasco – and the policy of the isolation and dispersal of the Muslim communities have been pursued vigorously by the government to the detriment of the Muslims;

That Islam, being a communal religion – an ideology and a way of life – must have a definite territory for the exercise of its tenets and teachings, and for the observance of its laws.

The test of Manifesto was forwarded to U.N Sec. Gen. U Thant and copies were also furnished to all heads of Muslim states and to Pres. Ferdinand Marcos.

Headline but nobody seemed to have known why he went on to touch an extreme move.

MIM did not gain much momentum and few outside his home province in Cotabato listened to him seriously enough

MIM contributed in the revival of the spirit of independence among Moros, particularly the students and the professionals.

President Marcos. His declaration of Martial Law in 1972

and his stay in office for more than twenty years substantiated beyond doubt the allegations that he indeed had dictatorial ambitions.