LUMAD AND MORO MINDANAO

Professor Ed Garcia of the this war of attrition is to cease, the Christian majority Department of Political Science, University of the must allow for the development of Lumad and Muslim Philippines, contributed to the completion of the project, organizations with the capacity for cohesive, purposeful including the historical overview. [...] To the north and west, it is cradled by the again in the early 1970s as students, workers and farmers South China Sea; to the east, by the Pacific Ocean; and to participated in the 'First Quarter Storm' which ushered in the south, by the Celebes Sea and the coastal waters of a turbulent periqd in Philippine .h istory. [...] A much secession came from the Muslims of Mindanao and the smaller percentage are dark, like the N egritos or Aeta of indigenous peoples of the Cordilleras, both of which Luzon, the Batak of Palawan and the Mamanwa of groups felt marginalized and were convinced of a deter- Mindanao. [...] The MNLF It declared the entirety of Mindanao, the Sulu archipelago consistently stood against accepting the terms of the and Palawan as the ancestral homeland of the Bangsa Constitution and took no part in the institution of the new Moro, and its battlecry was: 'Victory or to the graveyard!' autonomous region. [...] The uncon- ers perished at the hands of the Bagobo between 1918 cealed entry into the Mount Apo area of hundreds of and 1938, when the corporations ruthlessly expanded army troopers was proof of the seriousness of the PNOC's their plantations into tribal lands.33 Several of the Bagobo intentions.