(First of two parts)
was held on 12 February 2024 at Bocobo Hall, Law Center, University of the Philippines , Diliman, Quezon City. This was planned, organized and sponsored primarily by the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Foundation, in cooperation with the Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy , the Human Rights Violations Victims Memorial Commission , the U.P. Law College of Law/ Law Center Institute for Judicial Administration , and the De La Salle University Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center.
As I said there, I was not in Jolo in February 1974 but was rather a college junior and student activist in U.P. Diliman, where Amina Rasul was a History subject classmate. Soon after hearing about the Jolo Siege and Burning, including from her, my organization the U.P. Lipunang Pangkasaysayan joined the campus effort to collect and send relief goods for the displaced victims in solidarity with them.
At last February 12’s Forum on the Jolo Siege, among the background information provided by the organizers were these: MNLF killed – 612 ; military killed in action – 250; civilians killed – 1,000 to 10,000 ; displaced, rendered homeless in Jolo town – 40,000 ; and evacuated to Zamboanga, other places – 6,000. But these are of course not simply numbers. The three survivors in the panel discussion and their stories gave some flesh and life to those numbers.
The MNLF may have lost the Jolo Battle but it came close to winning its larger war of national liberation. The “New Moro War” of 1972 to 1976 on the two fronts of Southwestern Mindanao and Central Mindanao, after and in response to the declaration of martial law in September 1972, saw the fiercest and bloodiest fighting in the Philippines since World War II and the Japanese occupation of 1942-45. As Central Mindanao commander Maj. Gen. Fortunato Abat put it, “.
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