Moro resistance to Japanese occupation and atrocities in World War 2

[Wholegrain]

After the Japanese flattened most of the Filipino and American forces on Luzon and the Visayas, they faced the fiercest resistance from the Moro Muslims in Mindanao island. The Moros had been fighting the Americans for several decades and a Moro rebellion was raging against the Americans just when the Japanese invaded the islands.

Unlike in other southeast asian states where the local nationalist movements fell for the Japanese claim that they were going to "liberate" them from white colonialism, the Moros didn't buy their nonsense. They immediately started forming resistance groups to fight the Japanese. Both pro-American Moros, and independent Moro fighters who fought both the Americans and Japanese formed their own fighting units.

The Moros resurrected their infamous suicide squads (the juramentado in Spanish, Parang Sabil in Tausug) and launched suicide attacks against Japanese forces. During a juramentado attack, a Moro armed with a bolo knife or kris would position himself near Japanese or American soldiers, and fly into a rage and kill as many enemy fighters as they could before getting killed themselves. The Moros would only attack foreign colonizers (Japanese, Americans, Spanish) but never attacked local Chinese residents.

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Until the middle of the 19th century, however, the holy war was a group obligation. It was organized and led — with a good bit of the internal strife which has always been a part of Tausug politics — by the sultan and other officials of the Tausug....

A second form of parrang sabbil is said to have occurred every time a Tausug was killed in a battle with a non-Muslim. All Tausug thus killed by the Spaniards, Americans or Filipinos were automatically sabbil. The parrang sabbil occurrences reached its climax in the period of cotta warfare with the Americans. A large number of Tausug would fortify themselves...

Fiction and Fact Following are some points of interest on the juramentado : Myth: The juramentado was exclusively anti-Christian.

It was born in the 19th century, when Muslim power in the southern seas was almost as great as that of Spain. The fiction part of the juramentado myth say that the Muslims were treacherous and untrustworthy in their dealing with the Christians, that they were likely to run amuck at a moment's notice, killing men, women and children, and that they were fanatics who would do anything for the glory of their God.

Fact: The juramentado 's act was never done against members of ethnic groups not considered military enemies of the Tausug, or against those not actively attempting to take the Tausug away from the Islam faith. The juramentado's act was occasionally performed against the Japanese during World War II —and the Japanese were clearly defined as enemies. The juramentado never went after Chinese residents in spite of the fact that the Chinese were non-Muslim.

The Japanese would use brutal tactics, like slaughtering the entire village a Juramentado attacker came from in order to wipe out the resistance. The Japanese navy Medic Akira Makino admitted to conducting beheadings and horrific medical experiments on Moro civilians in Mindanao. He was attacked by Japanese nationalists, who called him a "liar".

Akira Makino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Japanese war veteran speaks of atrocities in the Philippines - Taipei Times

The main enemy facing the small Japanese squad were the guerrilla bands formed by local Muslim Moros, who constantly threatened their station, he said.

"We were told the Moros were such cruel people that they attacked enemies with spears and we actually rescued some people assaulted by them," Makino said. "I was told many times I should not walk in the palm tree jungle after dark."

Naturally, he said, almost all the hostages they captured were Moros. "We were supposed to keep them alive in captivity, but it was no problem if we `disposed' of them, in the beheadings the Japanese have become infamous for," Makino said.

He remembered at least 50 hostages being killed, "including those who got this," he said, moving his hand to imitate a sword cutting off a head.

Makino recalled the Japanese troops conducting disgusting surgical "operations" on Moro prisoners.

Japanese war veteran speaks of atrocities in the Philippines - Taipei Times

The frail old man recalled that many others were kept alive as human guinea pigs for his superior combat doctor, who wanted to show young medics like himself how to conduct surgical operations.

"We first anesthetized them -- we usually used injections or oxygen gas," he said. "Then they passed out in a few seconds."
The combat doctor would tell him to watch as he sliced open a hostage's stomach, a scene that Makino says made him so ill he couldn't eat or drink for days following the ordeals.

"When cooking chicken, the doctor would get amused and say, `Oh, this is just like human intestines,'" he said.
But Makino said he eventually became accustomed to what he had to do.

"I was desperate," he said. "I didn't want to do anything like that if possible. But I had to follow the orders of my superior as a military man, otherwise I'd have been beaten up."

He was unable to put a definitive number on how many of the 50 people that the unit killed were vivisected or how many of the operations he took part in.

He did say he could never forget those days on the tropical island and even six decades later he could barely talk about his experiences without breaking down.

As he talked about his experiences and memories, he lowered his eyes and said he felt the most profound guilt over the way the bodies were handled afterwards.

The Japanese made Moros dig holes in the ground, he said, and then they hurled in the bodies with the stomachs still open.
"The mud got in all over the human stomach. My captain said there was no need to close the wounds because that would just be a waste of suture thread," Makino said.

His voice suggesting the troops had some mercy, Makino added: "But we didn't leave any of the bodies out on the ground."

Mindanao was noted as the most "anti-Japanese" battleground in the region. The Moro band of guerilla resistance fighters were supported by much of the civilian population.

Sultans, Shamans, and Saints: Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia - Howard M. Federspiel - Google Books

The Moros fully liberated Mindanao from Japanese control six months before the Americans came back to liberate the Filipinos.

The CRC Press Terrorism Reader - Marie-Helen Maras - Google Books

A Handbook of Terrorism and Insurgency in Southeast Asia - Google Books

During the Commonwealth Period (1935-–46), some Moro leaders participated in the 1935 National Assembly Election. ... But only two Muslim leaders won their seats, prompting the Muslim groups to continue their fight for independence. But it was only the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941 'that more or less blunted the Moro independence movement', which resulted in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.26 During the Japanese occupation, Moros joined anti-Japanese resistance groups. It has been argued that six months before US forces led by General Douglas MacArthur landed in Leyte to retake the Philippines, 'the Muslim territories in Mindanao were already free of the Japanese'.

The Moro armed struggle in the Philippines: the nonviolent autonomy alternative - Macapado Abaton Muslim, Philippines. Office of the President, Mindanao State University. College of Public Affairs - Google Books

The arms that these groups had were mostly home-made guns and bladed weapons like the traditional Moro Kris and Kampilan, and some dilapidated and obsolete vestiges of the war against the Japanese in the early 1940s. There were also

Some Moro guerilla fighters would fight both the Japanese, Americans, and Filipinos at the same time.

Midnight on Mindanao: Wartime Remembances 1945-1946 - Dds Mel Amler - Google Books

Just as they were feared by the Spanish, they were now hated by the Filipinos. There was such animosity between the Moros and the Filipinos that small villages were divided into two separate entities – Moro and Christian. They were, at the same time, actually at war with the Japanese and Filipinos and barely tolerated the Americans.

The Moros around Lake Lanao ambushed Japanese troops with their Kris daggers, and some American POWs reported that their Japanese guards were so afraid of Moros they tried to keep them at a distance.

Mitsui Madhouse: Memoir of a U.S. Army Air Corps POW in World War II - Herbert Zincke, Scott A. Mills - Google Books

Some of the Moro juramentado suicide attackers would attack both Japanese and American soldiers and stab them, the Japanese responded by executing entire families of the attacks by beheading and denying food to entire civlian communities.

Midnight on Mindanao: Wartime Remembances 1945-1946 - Dds Mel Amler - Google Books

Midnight on Mindanao: Wartime Remembances 1945-1946 - Dds Mel Amler - Google Books

Midnight on Mindanao: Wartime Remembances 1945-1946 - Dds Mel Amler - Google Books

Cruise of the Lanikai: Incitement to War - Kemp Tolley - Google Books

http://nointervention.com/archive/pubs/CWIS/imnr.html

Igorot and moro National Reemergence: The Fabricated Philippine State.

Note that just when the Japanese invaded in 1941, the Moros were fighting in a rebellion against the Americans at Lake Lanao.

A thousand miles to the south are the Moros of Basilan, Mindanao, Palawan, and the Sulu Archipelago. For 400 years, these people have defended their homeland against foreign invaders - Spaniards, Americans, Japanese, and now Filipinos. Moro history dramatically reveals the illegitimacy of the "national borders" of the Philippines.

All of this provoked a five-year insurrection by the Moros of Lake Lanao - from June 1936 to 1941.

As little as one week before the Japanese invasion, the Moros were fighting and and killing Philipinne and American troops in juramentado attacks. When the Japanese invaded one week later, the Moros simply switched targets and unleashed their feared attacks upon the Japanese.

Islamic Identity, Postcoloniality, and Educational Policy: Schooling and ... - Jeffrey Ayala Milligan - Google Books

TERRITORIES: Terror in Jolo - TIME

Some of the pro-American Moro units formed a unit under Gumbay Piang called the Moro Bolo Battalion and fought alongside American troops (while the other independent Moro fighters fought both Americans and Japanese). These Moro fighters would sometimes assist Americans (while other Moros might stab both American and Japanese). Gumbay Piang had a Chinese paternal grandfather.

The Butchers, the Baker: The World War II Memoir of a United States Army Air ... - Victor L. Mapes, Scott A. Mills - Google Books

The Butchers, the Baker: The World War II Memoir of a United States Army Air ... - Victor L. Mapes, Scott A. Mills - Google Books

Gumbay Piang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Moro War: How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine ... - James R. Arnold - Google Books

Darangen: Epic of History - Google Books

To the Moros, the Japanese were just another colonizer like the Spanish and Americans.

America and Guerrilla Warfare - Anthony James Joes - Google Books

Some Moros would be fighting the Japanese and Americans at the same time, and take advantage of the situation to drive Christian Filipino settlers out of their land in Mindanao,

A Muslim archipelago: Islam and politics in Southeast Asia - Max L. Gross, Center for Strategic Intelligence Research (U.S.) - Google Books

MAR | Data | Assessment for Moros in the Philippines

MNLF Official Website

THE TRAGEDY OF ASIAN BASTARDIZING A FELLOW ASIAN

The blitzkrieg invasion by Japanese imperial forces in the 1940s over the Bangsamoro homeland MINSUPALA simultaneous with Luzon and Visayan islands was the worst inhumane act contemplated and committed by an Asian to another Asian. The short-lived occupation of Mindanao by the Japanese invaders exhibited tyranny, cruelty and inhumanity at its lowest level.

Thus, it was not surprising that in Mindanao the Japanese marauders had to suffer their worst defeat and highest death mortality at the hands of the Bangsamoro freedom fighters, who never surrendered to the Japanese tyrants unlike the Filipinos in Luzon.

Thus, how would Japan now rectify the outlandish historical blunder committed against the Bangsamoro people of Mindanao under Philippine colonialism?

As observed, the Japanese government, which has extended its deep apology to the people of Korea for the blind invasion and brutality committed against its neighbor, has still to apologize to the Muslim and other Indigenous Peoples of Mindanao for the tyrannical colonization of their ancestral domain. But is the present democratic Japanese government capable now to humble itself before the brutalized people of Mindanao?

The MNLF noted the irony of the same colonizers (America and Japan) still assisting the Philippine government to this day.

MORALITY OF ABANDONING PHILIPPINE COLONIALISM

Now hounded or haunted by all colonial, criminal and political circumstances enveloping the forced and illegal occupation of the Bangsamoro homeland MINSUPALA, how can the erstwhile foreign colonizers, such as Spain, America and Japan, help Philippine colonialism under President Benigno S. Aquino III to solve comprehensively and peacefully the Filipino-Moro war in Mindanao.
Is the conspiracy strategy still uppermost in their national interests to continue the inhumane treatment of the Muslim and Lumad natives of Mindanao as colonial slaves of the Filipino colonizers?

How can the foreign conspirators involved in the brutalization and destruction of the Bangsamoro people of Mindanao become humane and fair enough to help the Philippine government under President Benigno S. Aquino III end the Filipino-Moro conflict in Mindanao with "just and lasting" peace formula?

How can today Spain, America, Japan and the Philippines develop a high fortitude to embrace the anti-colonialism dictums, "no to exploitation of man by another man", "no to the law of the jungle that might is right," "yes to peace, no to war", and "Moros, not Filipinos"?

Simply said, the past and present colonizers as well as all stakeholders to the elusive Mindanao peace should clearly understand that the only moral and genuine solution to the Philippines-Bangsamoro war in Mindanao is to address the root cause of the problem. That is Philippine colonialism! The rest of the lip-service formula, including military solution, financial and material dole-outs and color-coated others, is only superficial, artificial and cosmetic because all are merely by-products of colonialism.

On this note, how then can the peaceful and conscious humanity, including the peacemakers and peace advocates in the UN, EU, ASEAN, OIC, NGOs and others, play a historic and objective role to help the Muslim and Highlander natives of war-ravaged Mindanao reclaim their own humanity and freedom from Philippine colonialism?

Simply put, can the Spaniards, Americans, Japanese and Filipinos now at the helm of their respective progressive government be truly human beings to hear the silent cry, genuine sentiments and moral aspirations of their fellow human beings under oppression, historic-religious and culture disintegration and colonial bondage?

In the final analysis, can the past foreign colonizers help the present Christian Catholic Philippine Chief Executive to emulate the historic role of Muslim leaders, like former Indonesian President Habibie and Sudanese President Ahmad Bashir, who boldly abandoned altogether colonialism to end the bloody war in their respective countries, giving peace and freedom to the Catholics of East Timor and Christians/Animists of South Sudan?-rrr/bfs

To this day, Japan has not apoligized to the Moros, nor has it paid any conpensation to the Moro people. It has only paid compensation to the Philippine government, which built a Kamikaze statue to honor the Japanese!

Kamikaze Pilot Statue (Mabalacat)

Some Moro veterans who fought against the Japanese, took up arms again in the Moro rebellion against the Philippines in the 1960s and 1970s and died in battle.

http://www.fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/sword.htm

These were the traditional weapons used by Moro fighters against the Spanish, Americans, and Japanese, the Kris and the Bolo.

 

[Wholegrain]

Although the main Moro resistance movements fought Japan in Mindanao and Sulu, there were also Moros in colonial British Borneo (in Sabah) who played a role in the resistance in Borneo.

The Suluks (Moro Tausugs) in Sabah suffered immensely from Japan in WW2. Chinese and Suluk forces joined together for an assault on the Japanese in Sabah. In retaliation, the Japanese machine gunned Suluk women and children at a mosque after killing their men in a horrific massacre. Almost the entire Suluk population from Suluk island off the coast of Sabah was wiped out. The Suluks had participated in an assault on the Japanese on the first day of the uprising, and the Chinese mostly took over after that, but it didn't stop Japan from committing their brutal slaughter and genocide on the Suluks, Bajau and other Muslim natives .

The Second World War: A Complete History - Martin Gilbert - Google Books

War Crimes: Japan's World War II Atrocities - Malcolm Joseph Thurman, Christine Sherman - Google Books

The Knights of Bushido: A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II - Edward Frederick Langley Russell Baron Russell of Liverpool, Lord Russell of Liverpool - Google Books

Tears of a teen-age comfort woman - Swee Lian - Google Books

The dragon and the maple leaf: Chinese Canadians in World War II - Marjorie Wong - Google Books

Kinabalu Guerrillas: An Account of the Double Tenth 1934 [i.e. 1943 - Maxwell J. Hall - Google Books

The Suluk leader Panglima Ali led Suluk forces to fight the Japanese in coordination with a Chinese led uprising in Sabah, led by the Chinese agent Guo Hengnan (Albert Kwok) . Panglima coordinated a naval assault by flotillas. This is what led the Japanese to start the massacres upon the Chinese, Suluks, and other natives of the area.

Southeast Asian Minorities in the Wartime Japanese Empire - Google Books

A Sudden Rampage: The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941-1945 - Nicholas Tarling - Google Books

The Tokyo war crimes trial: index and guide - International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Donald Cameron Watt - Google Books

The Tokyo war crimes trial: the pursuit of justice in the wake of World War II - Yuma Totani - Google Books

Masa Jepun: Sarawak Under the Japanese, 1941-1945 - Bob Reece - Google Books

Ring of fire: Australian guerrilla operations against the Japanese in World ... - Dick Crofton Horton - Google Books

The Japanese Occupation of Borneo, 1941-45 - Ooi Keat Gin - Google Books


A cargo of spice, or Exploring Borneo - R. A. M. Wilson - Google Books

Historical Sabah: The Chinese - Danny Tze-Ken Wong - Google Books

Under Five Flags - Ronald J. Brooks - Google Books

Malaysia; prospect and retrospect: the impact and after-math of colonial rule - Richard Allen - Google Books

Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Google Books

A Suluk Imam from Sulu, named Imam Marajukim united the Suluks with the other Muslim natives of Sabah like the Bajau to join the Chinese revolt against Japan.

The transformation of an immigrant society: a study of the Chinese of Sabah - Danny Tze-Ken Wong - Google Books

Pussy's in the well: Japanese occupation of Sarawak, 1941-1945 - Julitta Shau Hua Lim - Google Books

Rangkaian tawarikh negeri sabah - Muhammad A. Rahman - Google Books

L'Asie du Sud-Est: Par Françoise Cayrac-Blanchard (o.fl.a.). - Françoise Cayrac-Blanchard - Google Books

Sabah (North Borneo): Under the Rising Sun Government - Stephen R. Evans - Google Books

Under Five Flags - Ronald J. Brooks - Google Books

Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Google Books

 

[Wholegrain]

Akira Makino admitted that the Japanese carried out dissections on Moro civilians while they were still alive.

Dissect them alive: chilling Imperial that order could not be di | The Australian

Apart from the extraordinary climax of his wartime story, Mr Makino comes across as a typical Japanese of his generation — a polite, well-meaning man who lacked the courage and daring that would have been needed to stand up to the Imperial war machine. It was in such an atmosphere that he found himself in Zamboanga, a Muslim town in the far southwest of the Philippines.

The population were the Moro people, an assortment of jungle tribes legendary as ferocious head hunters. The Japanese feared and hated them; as the US forces drew closer they arrested many of them as spies and threw them into a hellish pit where they were left to rot.

“I don’t know whether they really were spies or not,” Mr Makino said. “All that was needed was for someone to say that they were. We knew that we’d lost the war. Our psychological state was very strange by then. In those conditions, we could do anything, absolutely anything.” It began with a practice that has been described by a number of former Japanese soldiers — the “testing” of traditional Japanese swords on live prisoners.

One day towards the end of 1944, Mr Makino was summoned by his commanding officer, a navy doctor. “He told me that if anything happened to him I had to take over from him. He told me to come and see a vivisection. The first time it was one prisoner, a middle-aged man. He’d already given up — there was no struggle. He was tied to the bed and anaesthetised with ether, so that he was completely unconscious. The lieutenant showed me what to do. He cut him open, and pointed out, ‘Here’s the liver, here’s the kidneys, here’s the heart’. The heart was still beating, then he cut the heart open and showed me the inside. That was when he died.

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The local population were the Moro people, an assortment of jungle tribes legendary as ferocious head hunters. The occupying Japanese feared and hated them; as the US forces drew closer, they arrested many of them as as spies, and threw them into a hellish pit where they were left to rot. I don't know whether they really were spies or not, said Mr Makino. All that was needed was for someone to say that they were. We knew that we'd lost the war. Our psychological state was very strange by then. In those conditions, we could do anything, absolutely anything. It began with a practice which has been described by a number of former Japanese soldiers - the testing of traditional Japanese swords on live prisoners. There were university graduates who had no idea how to fight, but who were officers because of their education,â Mr Makino says. They carried swords, but never used them. They'd say, "Bring the POWs - we will see how sharp these swords are!" So they tied up the prisoners and chopped their heads off. But the swords were so rusty, they couldn't do it cleanly.

AFP: Japanese veteran haunted by WWII surgical killings

The main enemy were the guerrilla bands formed by local Muslim Moros, who constantly threatened their station, he said.
"We were told the Moros were such cruel people that they attacked enemies with spears, and we actually rescued some people assaulted by them," Makino said. "I was told many times I should not walk in the palm tree jungle after dark."
Naturally, he said, almost all the hostages they captured were Moros. "We were supposed to keep them alive in captivity, but it was no problem if we 'disposed' of them, in the beheadings the Japanese have become infamous for."
He remembered at least 50 hostages being killed, "including those who got this," he said, moving his hand to imitate a sword cutting off a head.
The frail old man recalled that many others were kept alive as human guinea pigs for his superior combat doctor, who wanted to show young medics like himself how to conduct surgical operations.
"We first anesthetised them -- we usually used injections or oxygen gas," he said. "Then they passed out in a few seconds."
The combat doctor would tell him to watch as he sliced open a hostage's stomach, a scene that Makino says made him so ill he couldn't eat or drink for days afterwards.
But Makino said he eventually became accustomed to what he had to do.
"I was desperate," he said. "I didn't want to do anything like that if possible. But I had to follow the orders of my superior as a military man, otherwise I'd have been beaten up."
He could not put a definitive number on how many of the 50 people the unit killed were vivisected or how many of the operations he took part in.
He did say he could never forget those days on the tropical island and even six decades later he could barely talk about his experiences without breaking down.
As he talked about his experiences and memories with AFP, he lowered his eyes and said he felt the most profound guilt over the way the bodies were handled afterwards.
The Japanese made Moros dig holes in the ground, he said, and then they hurled in the bodies with the stomachs still open. "The mud got in all over the human stomach. My captain said there was no need to close the wounds because that would just be a waste of suture thread."
Makino said his unit in the Philippines did not have any organised plan and that it did not test plague germs.

This book details atrocities the Japanese commited against the Moros on Sulu, and the resistance of the Moro freedom fighters.

With the bravest: the untold story of the Sulu freedom fighters of World War II - Ernesto M. Espaldon - Google Books

With the bravest: the untold story of the Sulu freedom fighters of World War II - Ernesto M. Espaldon - Google Books

With the bravest: the untold story of the Sulu freedom fighters of World War II - Ernesto M. Espaldon - Google Books

With the bravest: the untold story of the Sulu freedom fighters of World War II - Ernesto M. Espaldon - Google Books

Japan has not only not apologized for doing this to the Moros, they continue to assist the Philippine government along with America.

@xunzi @+4vsgorillas-Apebane @shuttler @KirovAirship @SinoSoldier @ChineseTiger1986

 

[xunzi]

The brutality of the Jap in WWII is well-documented. There is no debate on that. Only the banana republic can forget these atrocities because their ancestors are not important to them. We, as Confucian society deeply connected with our ancestor through filial piety, show much more fighting spirit today to regain the dignity of our ancestor than these banana people. As long as these Japs don't' give proper respect to our ancestors, we will prey on them and once day we will revenge so our ancestor can live peacefully underground.

 

[Wholegrain]

The brutality of the Jap in WWII is well-documented. There is no debate on that. Only the banana republic can forget these atrocities because their ancestors are not important to them. We, as Confucian society deeply connected with our ancestor through filial piety, show much more fighting spirit today to regain the dignity of our ancestor than these banana people. As long as these Japs don't' give proper respect to our ancestors, we will prey on them and once day we will revenge so our ancestor can live peacefully underground.

The Moros are fighting against the Philippines government which is supported by Japan, I hope the 'banana people' you are referring to are Filipinos. Moros remember fighting against the Japanese and Philippine regime.

MNLF Official Website

THE TRAGEDY OF ASIAN BASTARDIZING A FELLOW ASIAN

The blitzkrieg invasion by Japanese imperial forces in the 1940s over the Bangsamoro homeland MINSUPALA simultaneous with Luzon and Visayan islands was the worst inhumane act contemplated and committed by an Asian to another Asian. The short-lived occupation of Mindanao by the Japanese invaders exhibited tyranny, cruelty and inhumanity at its lowest level.

Thus, it was not surprising that in Mindanao the Japanese marauders had to suffer their worst defeat and highest death mortality at the hands of the Bangsamoro freedom fighters, who never surrendered to the Japanese tyrants unlike the Filipinos in Luzon.

Thus, how would Japan now rectify the outlandish historical blunder committed against the Bangsamoro people of Mindanao under Philippine colonialism?

As observed, the Japanese government, which has extended its deep apology to the people of Korea for the blind invasion and brutality committed against its neighbor, has still to apologize to the Muslim and other Indigenous Peoples of Mindanao for the tyrannical colonization of their ancestral domain. But is the present democratic Japanese government capable now to humble itself before the brutalized people of Mindanao?

 

[JayMandan]

This shows that you do not know what it really is to be a Filipino. Ordinary Filipinos don't hold grudges. To forgive and forget is a Filipino trait. On the other hand, the Chinese seems to hate that. One reason why we don't get along. Lol.

 

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This shows that you do not know what it really is to be a Filipino. Ordinary Filipinos don't hold grudges. To forgive and forget is a Filipino trait. On the other hand, the Chinese seems to hate that. One reason why we don't get along. Lol.

Japan offered no apology to the Moros, and have only compensated the Philippine government, not the Moro or even Filipino people. (We all know where the Philippine government puts it money).

Japanese nationalists accused Akira Makino of being a liar, when he admitted that the Japanese dissected living Moro prisoners. Did you even read the article?

Japanese war veteran speaks of atrocities in the Philippines - Taipei Times

Nationalist Internet sites launched a campaign branding Makino a liar.

 

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While the Philippine government was busy fighting the Moros it also somehow found the time and money to build this statue. No statues were built for the Moro fighters who drove the Japanese out of Mindanao.

Kamikaze Pilot Statue (Mabalacat)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...pines-kamikaze-statue-lures-the-tourists.html

Philippines marks the birth of the `kamikaze' - Taipei Times

 

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Datu Gumbay Piang Elementary school in Maguindanao is named after Datu Gumbay Piang of the anti-Japanese Moro-Bolo Battalion. It has served as a refuge for Moro civilians fleeing fighting between the Philippine army and Moro insurgents.

Philippines | Education | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

The Mindanao Examiner: Photo: Our Muslim Children In The Southern Philippines

 

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Although the main Moro resistance movements fought Japan in Mindanao and Sulu, there were also Moros in colonial British Borneo (in Sabah) who played a role in the resistance in Borneo.

The Suluks (Moro Tausugs) in Sabah suffered immensely from Japan in WW2. Chinese and Suluk forces joined together for an assault on the Japanese in Sabah. In retaliation, the Japanese machine gunned Suluk women and children at a mosque after killing their men in a horrific massacre. Almost the entire Suluk population from Suluk island off the coast of Sabah was wiped out. The Suluks had participated in an assault on the Japanese on the first day of the uprising, and the Chinese mostly took over after that, but it didn't stop Japan from committing their brutal slaughter and genocide on the Suluks, Bajau and other Muslim natives .

The Second World War: A Complete History - Martin Gilbert - Google Books

War Crimes: Japan's World War II Atrocities - Malcolm Joseph Thurman, Christine Sherman - Google Books

The Knights of Bushido: A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II - Edward Frederick Langley Russell Baron Russell of Liverpool, Lord Russell of Liverpool - Google Books

Tears of a teen-age comfort woman - Swee Lian - Google Books

The dragon and the maple leaf: Chinese Canadians in World War II - Marjorie Wong - Google Books

Kinabalu Guerrillas: An Account of the Double Tenth 1934 [i.e. 1943 - Maxwell J. Hall - Google Books

The Suluk leader Panglima Ali led Suluk forces to fight the Japanese in coordination with a Chinese led uprising in Sabah, led by the Chinese agent Guo Hengnan (Albert Kwok) . Panglima coordinated a naval assault by flotillas. This is what led the Japanese to start the massacres upon the Chinese, Suluks, and other natives of the area.

Southeast Asian Minorities in the Wartime Japanese Empire - Google Books

A Sudden Rampage: The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941-1945 - Nicholas Tarling - Google Books

The Tokyo war crimes trial: index and guide - International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Donald Cameron Watt - Google Books

The Tokyo war crimes trial: the pursuit of justice in the wake of World War II - Yuma Totani - Google Books

Masa Jepun: Sarawak Under the Japanese, 1941-1945 - Bob Reece - Google Books

Ring of fire: Australian guerrilla operations against the Japanese in World ... - Dick Crofton Horton - Google Books

The Japanese Occupation of Borneo, 1941-45 - Ooi Keat Gin - Google Books


A cargo of spice, or Exploring Borneo - R. A. M. Wilson - Google Books

Historical Sabah: The Chinese - Danny Tze-Ken Wong - Google Books

Under Five Flags - Ronald J. Brooks - Google Books

Malaysia; prospect and retrospect: the impact and after-math of colonial rule - Richard Allen - Google Books

Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Google Books

A Suluk Imam from Sulu, named Imam Marajukim united the Suluks with the other Muslim natives of Sabah like the Bajau to join the Chinese revolt against Japan.

The transformation of an immigrant society: a study of the Chinese of Sabah - Danny Tze-Ken Wong - Google Books

Pussy's in the well: Japanese occupation of Sarawak, 1941-1945 - Julitta Shau Hua Lim - Google Books

Rangkaian tawarikh negeri sabah - Muhammad A. Rahman - Google Books

L'Asie du Sud-Est: Par Françoise Cayrac-Blanchard (o.fl.a.). - Françoise Cayrac-Blanchard - Google Books

Sabah (North Borneo): Under the Rising Sun Government - Stephen R. Evans - Google Books

Under Five Flags - Ronald J. Brooks - Google Books

Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society - Google Books

The Chinese forces under Guo Hengnan who fought alongside Suluk Muslims against the Japanese, used the Parang to attack Japanese soldiers. It resembles the Moro Bolo knife.

 

[Zero_wing]

While the Philippine government was busy fighting the Moros it also somehow found the time and money to build this statue. No statues were built for the Moro fighters who drove the Japanese out of Mindanao.

Kamikaze Pilot Statue (Mabalacat)

Philippines kamikaze statue lures the tourists - Telegraph

Philippines marks the birth of the `kamikaze' - Taipei Times

Is this the best propaganda item you have its pretty obvious you just singling out Filipinos and trying to create a wage with your half truth and whole lies strategy just goes to show that even the Nationalist like their commie mainlander country are just trying to assume things and use old wounds and current events they know nothing or little about.

to the non chinese imperials here please don't be fooled by this imperial propaganda its just a slanderous move.

 

[Wholegrain]

Is this the best propaganda item you have its pretty obvious you just singling out Filipinos and trying to create a wage with your half truth and whole lies strategy just goes to show that even the Nationalist like their commie mainlander country are just trying to assume things and use old wounds and current events they know nothing or little about.

to the non chinese imperials here please don't be fooled by this imperial propaganda its just a slanderous move.

A Handbook of Terrorism and Insurgency in Southeast Asia - Google Books

During the Commonwealth Period (1935-–46), some Moro leaders participated in the 1935 National Assembly Election. ... But only two Muslim leaders won their seats, prompting the Muslim groups to continue their fight for independence. But it was only the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941 'that more or less blunted the Moro independence movement', which resulted in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.26 During the Japanese occupation, Moros joined anti-Japanese resistance groups. It has been argued that six months before US forces led by General Douglas MacArthur landed in Leyte to retake the Philippines, 'the Muslim territories in Mindanao were already free of the Japanese'.

 

[Zero_wing]

A Handbook of Terrorism and Insurgency in Southeast Asia - Google Books

again nothing but racist anti filipino rants from imperial nationalist trash bin

 

[Wholegrain]

again nothing but racist anti filipino rants from imperial nationalist trash bin

I only responded in kind when people like you intiate the insults, slurs and attacks. I've never insulted anyone's nationality or ethnicity if they didn't do so first.

 

[Zero_wing]

I only responded in kind when people like you intiate the insults, slurs and attacks. I've never insulted anyone's nationality or ethnicity if they didn't do so first.

Really so tell me this why target the nations who are being invade and trouble by commie china imperial taiwan then especially the Philippines which the focus of your slanders oh please your just other anti filipino trash bin