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History of Bangsamoro

The Moro people are an ethnic minority group in the Philippines comprising around 5% of the population. They are predominantly Muslim. There has been a long struggle by Moro groups like the MNLF and MILF for self-determination and autonomy in the Bangsamoro homeland in regions like Sulu, Cotabato and Lanao due to the loss of their sovereignty and lands over time. The 1976 Tripoli Agreement between the MNLF and Philippine government agreed to autonomy but peace remained elusive. This led to a split in the MNLF and the formation of the MILF which continued the struggle for full Bangsamoro independence.

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History of Bangsamoro

The Moro people are an ethnic minority group in the Philippines comprising around 5% of the population. They are predominantly Muslim. There has been a long struggle by Moro groups like the MNLF and MILF for self-determination and autonomy in the Bangsamoro homeland in regions like Sulu, Cotabato and Lanao due to the loss of their sovereignty and lands over time. The 1976 Tripoli Agreement between the MNLF and Philippine government agreed to autonomy but peace remained elusive. This led to a split in the MNLF and the formation of the MILF which continued the struggle for full Bangsamoro independence.

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moro people

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moro_people#cite_note-3
--5.1% of the total Philippine population.[3]
[3]Philippines, Ronald E. Dolan, ed. Philippines: A Country Study. Washington: G
PO for the Library of Congress, 1991.
---http://countrystudies.us/philippines/
---http://countrystudies.us/philippines/38.htm
---Muslims, about 5 percent of the total population, were the most significant m
inority in the Philippines.
who are
-http://opinion.inquirer.net/39098/who-are-the-moro-people
Philippine Daily Inquirer
By: Jamail A. Kamlian, October 20th, 2012 11:03 PM
http://opinion.inquirer.net/39098/who-are-the-moro-people#ixzz3jqzHCSWp
--Self-determination
The Moro people s resentment over the loss of their sovereignty, ancestral lands a
nd economic resources was expressed occasionally from 1914 to 1940 in minor move
s. However, these would be transformed into major moves and systematic oppositio
n beginning in the 1960s.
For instance, Rep. Ombra Amilbangsa in 1961 filed a bill in the House of Represe
ntatives seeking the political independence of Sulu. After the 1968 Jabidah mass
acre, Datu Udtog Matalam, former governor of the undivided Cotabato province, wo
uld organize the Muslim Independence Movement.
Nur Misuari
Still in response to the Jabidah massacre, Nur Misuari in 1969 would also organi
ze the MNLF and started popularizing the term Bangsamoro as an identity distinct f
rom Filipino.
By 1972, the MNLF would gain national and international prominence with a series
of well-coordinated attacks against several detachments of the Armed Forces of
the Philippines in Sulu, Cotabato and Lanao provinces. These attacks signaled th
e commencement of a full-scale war in the Bangsamoro homeland and the beginning
of the armed struggle to assert the Moros right to self-determination.
As originally seen by the MNLF, the right of the Moro people to self-determinati
on can be fully expressed only through independence and the establishment of a B
angsamoro republic. However, under the Tripoli Agreement of Dec. 23, 1976, the M
NLF reduced its demand to genuine political autonomy within the realm of sovereign
ty and territorial integrity of the Philippine republic.
This agreement between the Philippine government during the Marcos regime and th
e MNLF was forged under the auspices of the Organization of Islamic Conference.
Peace, however, was hard to come by despite the conclusion of a final peace agre
ement in 1996 between the government during the Ramos administration and the MNL
F.
Salamat Hashim
The Tripoli Agreement led to the breakup of the MNLF as a large faction led by S
heik Salamat Hashim dissociated from the group of Misuari in 1977. The new facti
on opposed Misuari s acceptance of autonomy instead of continuing the struggle for
independence.
The group would later be known as the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the
leadership of which came mostly from religious scholars. The MILF s pronounced obj
ective was Bangsamoro independence.
The struggle for Moro self-determination was back on the agenda.
(Jamail A. Kamlian, Ph.D., author of the book Bangsamoro Society and Culture, is a
history professor at Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology.)

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