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By Jocelyn Uy Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 19:55:00 03/18/2008
CORREGIDOR ISLAND, Philippines -- The atrocity that happened here 40 years ago had long receded from Jibin Arula’s consciousness.
But when he set foot again on this island Tuesday to lead a caravan from Mindanao in commemorating the infamous "Jabidah Massacre," memories of how his fellow Muslim youth were killed by military officers came rushing back to him like it all happened just Tuesday.
Even the rough waves that punctuated the 30-minute boat ride from the shores of Mariveles, Bataan, to the island reminded him so much of the currents he fought against for four hours to swim to safety, Arula said.
Out of the roughly 60 Muslim youth summarily executed, only Arula, then 27, survived to tell the story -- which played a pivotal role in the war in Mindanao, giving birth to the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).
Arula recalled he and the other recruits were brought to the island on January 3, 1968 for training on guerrilla tactics in preparation for "Operation Merdeka," then a top-secret plan of the Marcos administration to invade the east Malaysian state of Sabah which the Philippine claimed as part of its territory.
Their training officers fired at them before dawn on March 18, 1968 after an attempt by the trainees to air their grievances against the officers to Malacañang. Arula, who was hit by a bullet on the left knee, swam for his life across Manila Bay.
Everybody knows Corregidor Island as a historic spot. Everybody knows that in this island hundreds of our gallant heroes stood their ground and died defending our country from the invading forces of Japan during World War II. Because of this historical circumstance, Corregidor Island is now a Tourist spot - a place for people to go on a memorial pilgrimage in honor of those who died heroically for our country.
But how many of us remember that on this same island, forty years ago, about two dozen Moro Youth were summarily executed by forces of the Philippine Government? This incident is now known to history as the infamous "Jabidah Massacre."
In Brief, the Jabidah Massacre was a result of a bungled covert operation. In 1968, then President Marcos made a covert plan, codenamed OPERATION MERDEKA (Freedom), aimed at infiltrating Sabah, Malaysia to sow chaos and organize the locals of the island for an eventual invasion of Philippine forces to reclaim Sabah from Malaysia. Sabah was historically part of the Sultanate of Sulu.
A select unit of AFP officers gathered a number of Moro youth from Sulu and Tawi-Tawi to a secret military training in Corregidor. Without them knowing their mission, these Moro youth thought that they were trained for some other purpose. But after learning about their real mission, they protested and refused to follow the mission. They would not want to take part in destroying the lives of people many of whom are their relatives. Marcos and his butchers knew only of one solution that will keep this botched mission from leaking out. Batch after batch, the young Moro trainees were mercilessly slaughtered at Kindley Field , an abandoned airstrip in the island of Corregidor. Had it not for a lone survivor who was able to tell the world about the massacre, the incident would have remained unknown. This single incident sparked the resurgence of the Moro liberation movement in the 70's. And the rest is history.
COMELEC: Prof.Moy Edding legitimate AMIN President
"Truth will out" Yes, that's how it is. That's how it should be. Finding truth eventually is a phrase applicable not only to the present Philippine political situation but also to the situation of Anak Mindanao (AMIN) Party List in many instances.
An underground organization styling itself as Revolutionary and calling itself as the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa sa Mindanao (RPMM) is laying claim over the AMIN organization and trying to grab the leadership of AMIN Party List through its minions inside the Party List organization. Their maneuvers are made by manipulating members, twisting facts, sowing disinformation, and launching smear campaign against legitimate leaders of AMIN, particularly against AMIN President, Prof. Moy Edding and elected AMIN Party List Representative to Congress, Rep. Mujiv Hataman.
After all pieces fell into place, these AMIN pretenders should now hang their heads in shame. That is if they got at least one of both - a head and shame.
First they boasted of having the majority of the leadership of AMIN. But that very same majority branded them as usurpers of authority and declared them illegal. Then they submitted a case to the House Ethics Committee in an obvious attempt to besmirch the name of AMIN's elected Representative and put him out of Congress. But again, this case was simply returned to sender by the House's Committee on Ethics for being deficient. Attempting further to discredit AMIN's representative, they blatantly twisted a readily available information and accused him as voting in favor of the Human Security Act even if the House's Journal about the voting of the Bill showed otherwise. Not contented in twisting facts they go as far as creating wild theories with the aim of implicating AMIN's Representative to Congress in the Batasan Blast. And again, just recently, the Department of Justice had dismissed the case against AMIN Rep. Mujiv Hataman on the Batasan Blast for insufficiency of evidence.
Stretching further their miserably poor and obviously torn and frayed imagination, these AMIN pretenders thought of making a coup de grâce by launching their own Special Congress. Because according to them their Special Congress will finally bequeath them their mandate, legitimacy and claim over Anak Mindanao (AMIN) Party List. But, did it?
To debunk annoying lies and fake claims made by the AMIN pretenders, and as per his request, AMIN President Prof. Mahmor "Moy" Edding, was issued a certification by the Law Department of the Commission on Elections' Central Office in Manila, certifying him as the "duly elected and legitimate President of Anak Mindanao (AMIN) Party List since 2004 to the present."
Given this certification issued by COMELEC, AMIN President Moy Edding is now contemplating of filing appropriate charges against those usurping authority and illegally claiming to be officers of AMIN, in the court of law. Prof Edding said that "it is high time that some people should be reminded of what the rule of law is all about. Perhaps they have already erased the concept of rule of law in their vocabulary. That's why they think that they can just transgress on anyone any time they want."
President Edding directs all AMIN members to disseminate this new information and openly expose the illegal existence of an organization claiming to be AMIN Party List, to all AMIN members, friends and supporters.
Indeed, Truth becomes known eventually. And this time it came with a COMELEC Certification. For as Shakespeare said in The Merchant of Venice, "But at the length truth will out."
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