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Old Map Showing Spratlys Belongs to the Philippines
Sulu Sultanate Rejects China's Claim Over Spratlys
China has no right over the Spratly Islands in what it calls the South China Sea because that is part of our ancestral domain, including the marine territory around it and the waters around these islands is part of the Sulu Sea, Majaraj Julmuner Jannaral, Sultanate information officer, told The STAR, quoting Muhammad Fuad Abdulla Kiram I, the reigning Sultan of Sulu and Sabah (North Borneo).
Sulu Sultanate rejects China claim over Spratlys | Global Balita
Sabah, Palawan and the Spratlys Island were given to the Sulu Sultanate by the Brunei Sultanate in the 1400's.
Our indisputable proof of ownership...our small barangay in Pag-asa Island. PROC occupy ZERO Island, Taiwan occupies Taiping Island only because the Taiwanese used force to removed our People there(and that's illegal under international law)...we are the FIRST to occupy the islands after Japanese renounce their ownership.
Muhammad Fuad Abdulla Kiram I is not even recognized by the Philippines government as the legitimate Sultan of Sulu, in fact, none of the 4 contenders are recognized. The last recognized Sultan died in 1986.
List of sultans of Sulu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Sultan" Muhammad is just trying to worm his way into the good books of the Philippine government, in the hopes that his claim to be the Sultan of Sulu will be officially recognized by the Philippine government.
He is practically a nonentity. The other claimaints have more legitimacy than him and have done more in their cause, it was Sultan Jamalul Kiram III who actually had the balls to do something about the claim to Sabah and send his men over to Lahad Datu to try to take it for himself instead of blabbering.
Sultan Jamalul Kiram III is both friends with the MNLF Chariman Nur Misuari and he also has good relations with China. He's been to Shandong before to re establish ties with Tausug descendants living there.
Also a reminder, the map you use is absolutely pathetic, because the Sulu Sultanate (and Maguindanao Sultanate) were at war AGAINST the Spanish governed Philippines for nearly 300 years. The map is complete BS because it shows the Sulu Sultanate as part of the Spanish Philippines. The Spanish CLAIMED the Sulu Sultanate as their territory but failed to take over it. The map you posted shows the former Spanish claims over the entire archipelago when in fact they didn't control Mindanao and Sulu.
I've posted plenty of links to sources on the Moros centuries long war against the Spanish, then the Americans and now the current Philippines government. The Sulu Sultanate was a big enemy of the Spanish Philippines.
http://www.defence.pk/forums/china-...graphic-engineering-against-moro-muslims.html
Misauri's mnlfnet.com website, which is pro MNLF (Misuari faction) and pro Sultan Jamalul Kiram III, recognize's China's claims to the Spratly islands.
HISTORICAL AND "HUMAN WRONG" OF PHILIPPINE COLONIALISM: HOW NOT TO RESPECT HISTORIC-HUMAN RIGHTS OF BANGSAMORO AND CHINA?-MNLF Official Website
EDITORIAL
BANGSAMORO YOUTH CORNER
08 October 2012
HISTORICAL AND "HUMAN WRONG" OF PHILIPPINE COLONIALISM:
HOW NOT TO RESPECT HISTORIC-HUMAN RIGHTS OF
BANGSAMORO AND CHINA?
By RRayhanR
Map of China, South China Sea and the Sulu Sea
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Given the current dispute between Philippines and China over actual ownership of the islands in South China Sea and the unending Philippines-Bangsamoro war in Filipino-occupied, there are two fundamental questions that need crystal clarification, to wit:
Firstly, can Philippines respect the historical and human rights of the colonized Bangsamoro people and the peace-loving Chinese people?
Secondly, can the Luzon-based Filipino colonizers cease to perpetrate injustice against the historically-sovereign Moro Nation (Bangsamoro) and now emerging super power China?
It is often said that the Spanish-conceptualized Catholic Filipino nation as an American-inspired "fabricated Philippine State" only in July 5, 1946 or a proclaimed "Philippine Republic" in Cavite on June 12, 1898 can never consider history an "ally", but always an "enemy". This truism is validated by its genocidal war today with the colonized Bangsamoro people for more than four decades after the immoral arbitrary annexation of the Moro Nation in 1946 courtesy of the 1935 Philippine Commonwealth National Assembly Legislative Act no. 4197 otherwise known as the draconian Quirino-Recto Colonization Act.
This is also proven true in its present dispute with China over the group of islands located in South China Sea ("West Philippine Sea" shrewdly renamed recently by Manila government) that the Chinese government has categorically claimed owning based on historical rights, insisting that the Huanyan islands case is never a disputed issue because historical ownership rests on China by moral and human rights.
Clearly, Philippine colonialism can never show any historical precedent or antecedent that the Bangsamoro homeland of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan (MINSUPALA) was ever a part and parcel of the "Philippine Republic" proclaimed by General Emilio Aguinaldo in Kawit, Cavite on June 12, 1898. Neither was the Moro Nation and the Bangsamoro people a willing "member" of the American-manufactured "Republic of the Philippines" on July 4, 1946 thanks to Filipino and American colonial conspiracy.
WHY IS PHILIPPINE COLONIALISM NOT RESPECTING HISTORICAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF BANGSAMORO AND CHINA?
It is vividly recorded in history that the Mindanao-based Sultanate of Sulu ("Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo" later in 1759) sovereignty was established way back in 1450 and followed in later years by the Sultanate of Maguindanao and Sultanate Buayan in Cotabato and the apat na pangampong district in Lanao. The Mindanao Sultanate government was promulgated way advance 448 years before the initial proclamation of the so-called Philippine Republic in 1898.
In history, the sovereign and independent Sultanate Government of the Muslim natives was recognized by no less than China, the oldest cradle and most flourishing civilization in Asia, the Madjapahit Empire (Indonesia today), Brunei, Malaysia and Western countries, such as Great Britain, Portugal, Dutch, and as well as Middle Eastern nations, like Muslim Arabia (Makkah), Hadramauth (Yemen) and Turkey.
Thus, the historical antecedents of the Mindanao Sultanate suzerainty are closely related to China. The two historical Asian independent nations had conducted ever since peaceful and friendly liaison, enjoying mutual cordial commercial and diplomatic intercourse. The Chinese merchants visiting Mindanao from all over China have always respect and trust for the Muslim and Animist native inhabitants of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan, contributing historically to the close linkage of the two Asian equal trading partners.
In fact, the introduction of Islam to Mindanao can also be credited to China, which served since time immemorial a wide base marketing centre for the enterprising business merchants from the Middle East, particularly Makkah of early Muhammadan Arabia and Hadramauth (Yemen) during the earliest period of the pivotal impact of Islam in the Arab peninsula.
From China, Arabian Muslim traders, who were also learned and knowledgeable in Islamic dawah (propagation), continued travelling on board Chinese vessels to Sulu in late 1200s, preaching Islam to the Tausug natives, and gradually in later years to the Maguindanao, Iranun and Maranaw natives of mainland Mindanao, particularly Cotabato and Lanao.
The historical corner stone of the pleasant and warm relationship between the Mindanao Sultanate sovereignty and China is attested by the famous Poon Tau Kong Chinese temple built in the metropolis town of the island of Jolo near the biggest Islamic mosque and the introduction of varied Chinese influence and traits that abound in the early Moro Nation, including intermarriage between Chinese nationals with native inhabitants. Thus, the various descendants of Mindanaoan--Chinese blood until today have attested to the peaceful and harmonious co-existence of the people of the early Moro Nation and China.
Unfortunately, the ancient sacred Chinese temple and the historic Tulay mosque in the center of Jolo were burned and razed to the ground in 1974 when the colonial Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) fighter jet planes, helicopter gunships and naval battle ships bombarded indiscriminately the capital town. The historically-noted February 7-8, 1974 "Battle of Jolo" between the MNLF-Bangsamoro freedom fighters and the AFP occupation forces that Philippine colonialism under the murderous Marcos regime tried hard to suppress and to hide from local and global media coverage led to the massive burning of almost the entire civilian houses and commercial buildings. The heavy bombardment and burning of the capital town of Jolo resulted in the mass killing of more than 20,000 innocent and helpless Muslim civilians, including children, women and aged, and countless personal material losses
Toward this single atrocity and many more injustices perpetrated by Philippine colonialism against the colonized and oppressed Bangsamoro people in history marking the colonial genocidal war in Mindanao, no regional and global human rights centre have ever investigated the grave abuses of the Philippine government. The so-called Philippine Human Rights Commission has existed only to hide the "human wrongs" committed by Philippine colonialism against the colonized, oppressed and brutalized Muslim and Indigenous peoples of the Bangsamoro homeland.
Truth to tell, during the reign of Sulu Sultan Badar ud-Din and while paying China a state visit, he appealed to the Chinese Emperor to consider recognizing the Sultanate domain of Sulu as a direct integral province of China. However, the Chinese Emperor declined the request as not necessary since the two nations have a strong diplomatic and commercial relationship based on mutual trust and respect for each other's sovereignty and independence.
The refusal of the Chinese Emperor to annexation, although voluntary, of the early Sultanate dominion as part and member of China would only show that the Asian dominant nation has always believed on peace and harmony with its neighbors. China has always valued peace rather than war in order not to create tensions and animosities that lead to mass suffering, demographic division and physical devastation triggered by other foreign exploitative war-monger nations, like the tumultuous events that happened to Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines and Bangsamoro.
On this historical reality, the Moro Nation and China should not be convinced by Philippine colonialism to ignore and to forget the moral lessons of history. In as much as China has all the historical rights to uphold its moral obligation and responsibility to the islands in South China that Philippine colonialism is eagle-eyed to land-grab similar to Mindanao, the Bangsamoro people, waging now a freedom struggle for more than 40 years against "Imperial Manila", have also the historical rights and moral ground to continue their noble struggle to decolonize their ancestral homeland.
In the final analysis, although presently under colonization and occupation by Philippine colonialism, the oppressed Bangsamoro people of Mindanao can only call upon China to stand on solid historical ground. The Philippines may have succeeded in the past with American support in land-grabbing the Moro Nation by using the law of the jungle that "might is right" disguised as "rule of law" to weaken fundamental rights and to erase historical rights, but this legal jargon of duplicity and trickery should serve a historical lesson to China to be steadfast to protect its substantial historical and human rights and ancient national interest.
The Bangsamoro and Chinese peoples of Asia should always eye history as an asset and a foundation of truth, not an "enemy" of a fictitious colonial state like the Philippines. -rrr/bfs
IMPACT OF POSSIBLE CHINA-PHILIPPINES WAR WITHIN FILIPINO-MORO WAR IN MINDANAO-MNLF Official Website
EDITORIAL
11 August 2012
BANGSAMORO HISTORICAL NOTES
IMPACT OF POSSIBLE CHINA-PHILIPPINES WAR
WITHIN FILIPINO-MORO WAR IN MINDANAO
SHORT PROLOGUE
What is the possibility of Philippine colonialism going to war with powerful China while still waging a genocidal war against the colonized Bangsamoro people of Mindanao?
Can Philippines afford to battle with both the colonized people of Mindanao and the emerging global superpower China whose historical rights, respectively, on Sulu Sea and South China Sea are being usurped and challenged by a "corrupt" and "fabricated Philippine State" from inception?
PART I - WHAT AILS THE FILIPINO NATION?
History cannot erase the fact that the "Philippine Republic" was only formed in July 4, 1946 by both American and Filipino conspirators, who totally ignored the vehement series of protestation of the Bangsamoro people of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan (MINSUPALA) to be part and parcel of the Christian Catholic Filipino nation. The compelling reason was that the Muslims or Moros were sovereign and independent, and distinctly different in religion, culture and historical heritage from the Spanish descent Catholic Filipinos and Christianized Indios. Clearly, the Philippine Republic was manufactured by unscrupulous American and Filipino politicians to extinct the Bangsamoro and Igorot peoples and treacherously to land-grab their ancestral lands akin to the Indian Nations of North America. Thus, the eventual ugly consequence is the decades-long blood-letting between the Bangsamoro freedom fighters and the colonial Filipino military occupation forces in Mindanao today.
Conscious of the duplicity and wickedness displayed in the 1930s by the power-hungry Filipino politicians spearheaded by Manuel L. Quezon and political ilks, the Muslim leaders in the Bangsamoro homeland of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan strongly demanded for their fundamental human rights to freedom and independence, determining even to remain within the political ambit of the United States of America (USA). But never under Philippine colonial rule. However, their appeal for national self-determination was completely ignored by the U.S. government, yielding to the duplicitous political lobby of the of the megalomaniac Filipino plotters bent to colonize and to occupy the Moro Nation and the Mountain Province (Cordillera Region).
Thus, the joint American and Filipino political conspiracy was consummated by the immoral and illegal inclusion of MINSUPALA and Cordillera Region into the so-called Republic of the Philippines in 1946.
In the exact words of Joseph E. Fallon, "the Republic of the Philippines is an arbitrary amalgamation of a multitude of diverse islands and peoples."
The tragic truth was that the protesting Muslim and Highlander natives of Mindanao, and too the native Igorots of Mountain Province were only forced to become "third-class citizens" of the "accursed" Philippine Republic for they were never consulted or subjected to any form of democratic process based on people's referendum or plebiscite.
Thus, it is further emphasized by Joseph E. Fallon that the American-created "political entity is not a nation-state; neither it is a voluntary multinational association. Rather, it constitutes a new, post World War II, colonial order centered in Manila, and dedicated to the political and economic hegemony of the local Christian-Europhile community over the entire territory of the former American colony." As he also observed' "although distinct Chinese, Cambodia,
Japanese, Korean, Tibetan and Thai countries had emerged by the time of the onslaught of American imperialism in Asia during the 19th century, there never existed a Filipino nation."
"While other heterogeneous Asian countries can seek to legitimate the existence of their states by declaring a continuity -however dubious- with indigenous kingdoms or empires that flourished in their lands before European domination, Filipino nationalists cannot."
"No single political entity ever ruled the entire archipelago, and those states which did arise to govern significant portions of these islands, including the area around Manila, were Muslim. Unlike other Asian nationalisms, for Filipinos history is an enemy, not an ally."
PART II- WHY IS HISTORY AN ENEMY OF FILIPINOS, NOT AN ALLY? WHAT FAULTS PHILIPPINE HISTORY?
In the case of the present dispute between China and the Philippines over the islands in South China Sea (Manila government recently changed to "West Philippine Sea"), the Philippine claim from the beginning over the islands within Mindanao Sea ("Bohol Sea" as renamed by the Filipino colonizers), Sulu Sea and South China Sea has no historical moral ground. This is simply because the "fabricated Philippine State" can't proudly live up with its illegal annexation of the ancestral homelands of both the Bangsamoro and the Igorot peoples, more so, with its present preposterous claim of owning the whole of Spratly islands that China claims to own by historical rights.
Thus, how can the Philippines continue deceiving humanity with its historical deformity and falsehood predicated only in plain land-grabbing colonial scheme? But the saddest fact is that Philippine colonialism has no qualms pursuing in fooling humanity of this criminal historical conspiracy and duplicity.
Now, that the ill-conceived Philippine Republic has to face possible war with China while still engaging the Bangsamoro people in the decades-long Mindanao war, it has only unmasked the Filipino colonizers' own game of "duplicity, intimidation and falsehood" to legitimize their self-defeating claim to the islands in South China Sea and Mindanao Sea.
As currently reported in both Philippine and foreign media, the word war between the contending nations over the disputed islands located in South China Sea is causing high tension in both countries.
Inside the Philippines, which have to peacefully end the Filipino-Moro war in Mindanao and the AFP-NDF/NPA war affecting the entire Filipino nation, there are irresponsible Filipino leaders talking of open confrontation with China. Worse, the Philippine leadership is showing a desperate move of inviting America to help the Philippines conduct military surveillance on South China Sea. Surely on this end, the provocative incursion would henceforth challenge China to retaliate with all its military power, notwithstanding the illegal military intervention or participation of America.
In blocking the military incursion of foreign element in a bid to trample its historical right to the islands of South China Sea, China had once "punished" Vietnam on March 14, 1988 in a naval skirmish by sinking one vessel and heavily damaging another one that had to retreat hurriedly back to home base.
Thus, given the same possible scenario, China can anytime crush any attempt by Philippines to undertake any provocative offensive either militarily or diplomatically because the latter country has no moral ground to prove valid its historical right over the contested islands in South China Sea except relying on the modern day-conceived United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLS) that China has no moral historical obligation to recognize.
In the recent conference of the foreign ministers of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Phnom Penh, the Philippines miserably failed in its diplomatic attempt to gain support for its weak claim on the South China Sea issue. The ASEAN meeting simply considered the Panatag Shoal (Huangyan Island to China) dispute not a regional issue or merely a non-issue, following China's historical viewpoint that "Huangyan Island has always been part of the Chinese territory and not a disputed island."
In reality, the dismal failure of the Philippines to deceive the other ASEAN member states has only proven that it does not have the diplomatic and military influence to match its high-pitched verbal provocations. Nonetheless, it is interesting to note that in the ASEAN meeting, Philippine's Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario denounced Chinese "duplicity" and "intimidation" in the South China Sea alluding to the continuous presence of Chinese fishermen in the area.
Referring to the Huangyan Island (Panatag Shoal) standoff of both Chinese and Filipino vessels, he stressed the expected face-saving comment, "if Philippine sovereignty and jurisdiction can be denigrated by a powerful country through pressure, duplicity, intimidation and the threat of the use of force, the international community should be concerned abotu the behavior."
On this historical purview, the Philippine government has only to blame itself for the humility and failure to deceive further the conscious humanity because for too long now it has had used every "pressure, duplicity, intimidation and the threat of the use of force" (or "military solution") against the oppressed and colonized Bangsamoro and Igorot peoples to keep them further in colonial bondage. The Luzon-based Filipino colonizers never have the political will to end the more than forty (40) years Mindanao war because they want to prolong the killing of more Muslim and Highlander natives in order to perpetuate Philippine colonialism in the war-torn region.
Thus, perhaps it is all providential that the China-Philippines disagreement on the historical rights of the Spratly islands in South China Sea has indeed happened. It is only showing the historical weakness and fallacy of Philippine colonialism to impose its empty claims on the Bangsamoro and Igorot peoples, including imposing its "cursed" Filipino identity and highly questionable sovereignty over the Bangsamoro homeland MINSUPALA and the Cordillera Region.
By this historical awkwardness, if in the event the Philippine government foolishly provoke China into a face-saving war, however minor or small scale, the colonized Bangsamoro people certainly cannot take the gambit of joining the war against the peace-loving Chinese people. As the "greatest" heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali, while refusing draft into the U.S. military, said: "We ain't got no quarrel with the Vietcong."
In truth, for centuries now, the Bangsamoro people of Mindanao have been fighting the Spanish, American, Japanese and Filipino colonizers to maintain their complete freedom and independence. And China was never an enemy, but always remained a peaceful neighbor to the Moro Nation, particularly to the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo. Formally proclaimed in 1450 and recognized by China and other foreign countries, the Sultanate of Sulu was the first established Bangsamoro Sultanate government in Mindanao followed by the Sultanate of Maguindanao and Sultanate Buayan in Cotabato, and the Apat na Pangampong Sultanate district in Lanao region.
Thus, when will Philippine colonialism learn well the historical moral lesson that it does not at all pay to use "pressure, duplicity, intimidation and the threat of the use of force" to solve the nagging Filipino-Moro war in Mindanao, if only to ensure permanent peaceful co-existence of the different multi-cultural and religious peoples of the region?
On this end, is it not possible for the Filipino colonizers to have peace with the freedom-loving Bangsamoro and Igorot peoples and continued peaceful co-existence with around 1.5 billion Chinese people all over the world?
Why is it too painful for the Filipino colonizers to accept the reality that Filipinization or similarly Christianization of the Muslim and Lumad natives of Mindanao and the Igorots of Mountain Province is never a sound solution, but just an ugly face of ethnic cleansing leading to more massacres in a continued colonial war?
Thus, again, the striking words of wisdom of Joseph E. Fallon come to mind, "after so many decades of abuse and betrayal, for the Moros and the Igorots to trust Manila and to remain within the Philippines would not only be naive, it would be suicidal."
Hence, it is about time that the peaceful community of nations worldwide should be wary of the political and diplomatic antics of the American-fabricated Philippine State. The international community should play active role to appeal to the Catholic Filipino nation to abandon the ugliness of colonialism so as to guarantee permanent and durable peace in war-ravaged Mindanao and restive Cordillera Region for the betterment, prosperity and brighter future of the Filipino, Bangsamoro and Igorot peoples of Southeast Asia. -osm/mnlfnet.com
As for the BS you posted on the Philippines being in the Spratly Islands first, I quote myself again.
For everyone who is not a Filipino, I present the facts:
The Spratly Islands were disputed between France and the Republic of China in the 1930s. Japan invaded the islands and after the Japanese were defeated, the Republic of China was designated to receive the Japanese surrenders in the Spratlys at the end of WW 2 in 1945. The Republic of China then established garrisons on the islands in 1946 before Vietnam was even an independent country. The Republic of China (Taiwan) has the oldest military presence and claims on the islands. The American colony known as the Philippines did not claim the Spratly islands or even take notice of them before independence in 1946. After independence, the Filipino Tomas Cloma suddenly claimed he "discovered" the already occupied Spratly islands, and based on this claim the Marcos government in the Philippines (the butcherer of tens of thousands of Moro civlians) claimed the Spratlys in the 1970s.
Spratly Islands (reefs, South China Sea) -- Encyclopedia Britannica
Vietnam Joins the World - Google knygos
Where in the World is the Philippines?
The Law of the Sea and Northeast Asia
The PRC does control some of the Spratly islands.
Johnson South Reef Skirmish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
