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The Moro people or Bangsamoro people are the 13 Muslim-majority ethnolinguistic Austronesian groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan, native to the region known as the Bangsamoro (lit. Moro nation or Moro country). [6]
Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), Muslim separatist movement in the southern Philippines that has employed guerrilla tactics and violence in its campaign for the creation of an independent democratic, Islamic state. Taking its name from the Muslim Moro peoples of Mindanao and other southern.
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Oct 20, 2012 · The Moro people comprise the 13 Islamized ethnolinguistic groups of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan. Along with the group known as Lumad in Mindanao, the Moros are an indigenous population that had been living on the islands long before the coming of Spanish colonialism.
In 1968, the Muslim Independence Movement (MIM) was launched by radical Islamic leaders calling for independence from the Philippines and the creation of a Bangsa Moro, or Moro nation. This, and local ‘Christian’ countermeasures, led to full-scale revolt.
Moro, any of several Muslim peoples of Mindanao, Palawan, the Sulu Archipelago, and other southern islands of the Philippines. Constituting about 5 percent of the Philippine population, they can be classified linguistically into 10 subgroups: the Maguindanao of North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, and.
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The Moro Rebellion (1902–1913) was an armed conflict between the Moro people and the United States military during the Philippine–American War.
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Jul 31, 2015 · Filipinos, educated in a largely Western-oriented curriculum and absorbing a lot of anti-Moro biases, know very little about Mindanao history. But without even the most elemental knowledge, how can we expect the nation to appreciate the deep-seated feelings of exclusion and injustice among our Moro brethren?
