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Bangsamoro People
By Jet T. Castillo
Pre-Colonial Times
Spanish Times
Moro Wars
When the Spaniards arrived in the
Philippines, Mindanao and Sulu were
untouched. Only Visayas and Luzon were
ruled by the Spaniards.
A few parts of Mindanao fell to the
Spaniards, like Zamboanga City, Dapitan,
Cagayan de Oro, and Davao. But the
greater part of the South remained free
and Islamic.
The Moros successfully repelled the
Spanish invaders for more than 300
years.
Moro Wars
The Moros were able to preserve their culture, religion,
and Sabah, away from Spanish influence; while their
brothers and sisters in Luzon and Visayas became
highly Hispanized.
American Period
Bates Treaty
When Spain sold the Philippines to the US in the 1898
Treaty of Paris, Mindanao was part of the deal even
though Spain had no complete control of the region.
1899- Gen. John Bates made friends with the Sultan of
Sulu, and signed a treaty with the sultan agreeing to put
his territory under American administration, but he will
maintain his religious leadership over his people.
Moro-American War
1902 war broke out between the Moros and the US
colonial army
1915 The Moro-American War ended with the signing
of the Kiram-Carpenter Agreement
Several American laws put Moro lands under US colonial
domain.
Philippine Independence
When America gave us our independence in 1946, we
became a big and diverse nation composed of Luzon,
Visayas, and Mindanao.
There was peace in Mindanao at that time. Muslims and
Christians co-existed peacefully in the South.
The ARMM
The conflict raged on through several decades.
In 1996, President Fidel V. Ramos forged a peace
deal with the MNLF.
The Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao
(ARMM) was created and it appeased the MNLF
because its leaders got seats of power in the said
autonomous region. They surrendered their arms to
our government.
The ARMM
But the MILF was left out in the deal, thus they
continued their armed struggle.
Things became worse when President Erap Estrada
declared an all-out war against the MILF in 2000.
The BBL
Today, our government is trying to come up with
another peace deal, this time, with the MILF.
The Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) will create an
expanded autonomous region in Muslim Mindanao, with
the MILF personalities expected to be its key leaders.
They will have their own set of lawmakers to make proIslamic laws, its own police force, own mayors and
provincial administrators, and budget coming from the
Manila government amounting to around P70 billion per
year.
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No mention of an additional
fact/story (not mentioned in the
lecture powerpoint) about the
root of the armed struggle in
Mindanao
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