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The Moro Conflict and the Philippine Experience with Autonomy Australian National University (ANU) Jubair, Salah (1999). Bangsamoro, a Nation Under Endless Tyranny. IQ Marin. Tuazon, Bobby M., ed. (2008). The Moro reader: history and contemporary struggles of the Bangsamoro people. Diliman, Quezon City: Policy Study Publication and Advocacy ...
The Moro conflict [38] [39] [40] was an insurgency in the Mindanao region of the Philippines which involved multiple armed groups. [41] [30] A decades-long peace process [38] [42] has resulted in peace deals between the Philippine government and two major armed groups, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) [43] and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), [44] but other smaller armed ...
The First Battle of Bud Dajo, also known as the Moro Crater Massacre, was a counterinsurgency action conducted by the United States Army and Marine Corps [4] against the Moro people in March 1906, during the Moro Rebellion in the southwestern Philippines.
The Moro Rebellion (1902–1913) was an armed conflict between the Moro people and the United States military during the Philippine–American War.The rebellion occurred after the conclusion of the conflict between the United States and First Philippine Republic, and saw the US move to impose its authority over the Muslim states in Mindanao, Jolo and the neighboring Sulu Archipelago.
The Homestead Program is one of the root-causes of the Moro conflict. [18] [19] Poverty, grievances of the Muslim population, weak rule of law and difficult terrain have made counterterrorism challenging against insurgents in the Southern Philippines. [20] On March 18, 1968, there was an alleged massacre of Moro soldiers in Corregidor Island.
Moro Province was a province of the Philippines consisting of the regions of Zamboanga, Lanao, Cotabato, Davao, and Jolo. [1] It was later split into provinces and regions organized under the Department of Mindanao and Sulu , along with the former provinces of Agusan , and current province of Bukidnon.
Moro piracy is often linked to the Spanish colonial occupation of the Philippines. In a course of over two and a half centuries, Moro piratical attacks on Christian communities caused "an epoch of wholesale misery for the inhabitants". [11] After the Spanish arrival in 1521, Moro piratical raids against Christian settlements started in June 1578.
In 1969, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) was founded on the concept of a Bangsa Moro Republic by a group of educated young Muslims. The leader of this group, Nur Misuari, regarded the earlier movements as feudal and oppressive, and employed a Marxist framework to analyze the Muslim condition and the general Philippine situation.