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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, 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
Apr 10, 2019 · The deaths of the 44 Special Action Force (SAF) police officers in Mamasapano, for example, was divisive. So many Filipinos blamed the Moros for this tragedy despite the fact that 24 of the total of 68 people killed in that encounter were Moro—we don’t see that we can be victims, too.
Dec 5, 2009 · I examine how the term “Moro,” which Spanish and American colonizers and Christian Filipinos used in a derogatory sense to refer to Philippine Muslims, was transformed and transcoded by the latter and now used in a positive way to refer to their identity.
- Vivienne Sm. Angeles
- angeles@lasalle.edu
- 2010
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.
Moros, Filipino Muslims, represent roughly 5% of the population of the Philippines. As a diverse community of various ethnolinguistic groups, Moros are marginalized by the state and have longstanding grievances dating back to the Spanish colonial period.
