By DON J. PAGUSARA Davao Today It was tagged as the Jabidah Massacre, where several Muslim youths, mostly Tausog, were recruited and underwent military training. They were promised a bright tomorrow. But they were mercilessly murdered by the trainer-soldiers of Marcos. It was alleged that they were trained for a “secret plan” which later came to be divulged as having to do with the Philippine claim to Sabah.
By AMIRA ALI LIDASAN Davao Today In the history of the Moro people, the Kirams were a picture of a royalty who gave in to the colonials. Sabah was a gift given by the Sultanate of Brunei to the Sultanate of Sulu, because of its help in quelling a rebellion against the Brunei sultanate in 1658. The Sulu Sultanate then leased North Borneo to British North Borneo Company in 1878 in exchange of 5,300 Mexican pesos. Britain would then annex Sabah during colonization until 1946 and the new Federated Malaysia included it as part of its territory in 1963.
(First of a three-part column) By AMIRA ALI LIDASAN Davao Today We can see the worry in the face of Princess Jacel as she updates her father, her emotional appeal to end the attack against her father’s men, and her anger at Pres. Aquino. In the press conference, she wore the Muslim woman’s veil or tirong in her Tausug language, emotional in her challenge against Aquino. This is the image of a Muslim woman challenging the state because she is a victim of government neglect, of human rights violation such as enforced evacuation in a conflict area, or whose husband or son was falsely identified as an Abu Sayyaf member and illegally arrested in exchange of rewards against terrorists.
By BEVERLY ANN S. MUSNI, YR. Davao Today I am especially grateful that I have a strong Nanay, who also fights for the rights and freedom of the women who are abused and oppressed. I am happy that my Nanay has stood her ground, picked herself up and walked on despite the heartaches that she has been through.
By DON J. PAGUSARA Davao Today As a Filipino, it is our patriotic duty to abide by the Sultan who has pursued the claim not only for the Sultanate but ultimately for the Philippine State. We cannot just leave him and our other Filipino compatriots at the mercy of a foreign government who has shown no respect for human rights, indiscriminately brutalizing Filipinos in the area.