This document summarizes key events related to the Moro diaspora and independence movement in the Philippines. It discusses the Jabidah massacre of 1968, where Moro Muslim recruits were killed by the Armed Forces of the Philippines after demanding to return home from training. In response, Datu Udtog Matalam founded the Muslim Independence Movement (MIM) to call for an Islamic Republic of Mindanao. The MIM manifesto cited principles of self-determination and argued that Islam requires a definite territory. However, the MIM did not gain wide support and momentum. President Marcos's declaration of martial law in 1972 supported claims that he had dictatorial ambitions that threatened Moro autonomy.

1. DIASPORA OF THE
MOROS
Jeraline Jel S. Laban

2. IS A SCATTERED POPULATION WITH A
COMMON ORIGIN IN A SMALLER
GEOGRAPHIC AREA. DIASPORA CAN
ALSO REFER TO THE MOVEMENT OF
THE POPULATION FROM ITS
ORIGINAL HOMELAND.
What does the word DIASPORA
means?

3. MASSACRE IN
THE ROCK

4. PRES. DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
 Philippine president who
was close to the hearts
of the Moros

5. FERDINAND MARCOS
Formally put forth the
Sabah Claim in 1962. based on
the sovereignty once exercised
by the Sulu sultanate over the
Northern Borneo territory.

6. OPERATION MERDEKA
 led by Diosdado Macapagal, then later on Ferdinand Marcos
 Manuel Syquio as project leader and then Maj. Eduardo Abdul Latif
Martelino as operations officer

7. THE OBJECT OF THIS PROGRAM
 the annexation of Sabah to the Republic of the Philippines.
 a monthly allowance
 member of an elite unit in the Philippine Armed Forces
 From August to December 1967, the young recruits underwent
training in Simunul. (JABIDAH)

8.  December 30 1967, 135 to 180 recruits boarded a Philippine Navy
vessel for the island of Corregidor in Luzon for “specialized training”
 Second phase
Discovered their true mission.
Non payment of monthly allowance
Demanded to return home

9. JABIDAH MASSACRE
 March 17, 1968
 Rocky Isand of Corregidor
 victims were part of the 180 trainees (mostly Moros) , who were
undergoing training on jungle warfare, sabotage and infiltration
 which members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) are
said to have massacred a number of Moro Muslim recruits who were
escaping their covert training to reclaim Sabah
 Jibin Arola

10. THE FOUNDING OF
MIM
The bloodpath at Corregidor did not only anger the Malaysians
including Sabah Chief Minister Datu Tun Mustapha
Haron, but jolted the Moros and their particularly Cotabato
Governor Datu Udtog Matalam.

11. DATU UDTOG MATALAM
 Create Islamic Republic of Mindanao
 May 1, 1968, organized the Muslim and later the Mindanao
Independence Movement

12. IN THE MANIFESTO ISSUED BY THE
MIM, THE FF. WERE CONSIDERED
That it is a recognized principle underlying the Charter
of the United Nations and the Declaration of Human
Rights that all peoples consisting of the minority in a given
state possess the right to self-determination.
That the Islamic World Congress has affirmed the above
principles, particularly the right of Muslims who are the
minority in non-Muslim states, to self determination;

13. That the systematic extermination of the Muslim youth –
like the Corregidor Fiasco – and the policy of the isolation
and dispersal of the Muslim communities have been
pursued vigorously by the government to the detriment of
the Muslims;
That Islam, being a communal religion – an ideology and
a way of life – must have a definite territory for the
exercise of its tenets and teachings, and for the observance
of its laws.

14.  The test of Manifesto was forwarded to U.N Sec. Gen. U Thant
and copies were also furnished to all heads of Muslim states and to
Pres. Ferdinand Marcos.
 Headline but nobody seemed to have known why he went on to
touch an extreme move.
 MIM did not gain much momentum and few outside his home
province in Cotabato listened to him seriously enough
 MIM contributed in the revival of the spirit of independence
among Moros, particularly the students and the professionals.

15.  President Marcos.
His declaration of Martial Law in 1972 and his stay in
office for more than twenty years substantiated
beyond doubt the allegations that he indeed had
dictatorial ambitions.