Editing Ferdinand Marcos (section)

===Jabidah exposé ===
{{Main|Jabidah massacre|Moro conflict}}

In March 1968 Jibin Arula was fished out of Manila Bay, after he was shot. He was brought to then-Cavite Governor Delfin N. Montano, to whom he described the Jabidah massacre, saying that numerous [[Moro people|Moro]] army recruits had been executed by members of the [[Armed Forces of the Philippines]] (AFP) on March 18, 1968.<ref name="Rappler"/>{{better source needed|date=June 2020}} This became the subject of an exposé by Senator Aquino.<ref name="sfof">{{cite web|website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines|url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1968/03/28/jabidah-special-forces-of-evil-by-senator-benigno-s-aquino-jr/|title=Jabidah! Special Forces of Evil?|author=Senator Benigno S. Aquino Jr.|publisher=[[Government of the Philippines]]|date=March 28, 1968|access-date=November 7, 2023|archive-date=December 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225182831/https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1968/03/28/jabidah-special-forces-of-evil-by-senator-benigno-s-aquino-jr/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Nasser A. Marohomsalic|title=Aristocrats of the Malay Race: A Historic of the Bangsa Moro in the Philippines|url={{Google books|plainurl=y|id=s3ZwAAAAMAAJ}}|year=2001|publisher=N.A. Marohomsalic}}</ref>

Although the lack of other living witnesses hampered the probe, it ignited the [[Moro insurgency in the Philippines]].<ref name="George1980"/> Despite numerous trials and hearings, none of the officers implicated in the massacre were convicted, leading many Filipino Muslims to believe that the "Christian" government in Manila had little regard for them.<ref name="Larousse2001">{{cite book|author=William Larousse|title=A Local Church Living for Dialogue: Muslim-Christian Relations in Mindanao-Sulu, Philippines : 1965–2000|url={{Google books|plainurl=y|id=qyo-Hti0-KAC}}|year=2001|publisher=Gregorian Biblical BookShop|isbn=978-88-7652-879-8|access-date=November 7, 2023|archive-date=November 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107162927/https://books.google.com/books?id=qyo-Hti0-KAC|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Majul1985">{{cite book|author=Cesar Adib Majul|title=The contemporary Muslim movement in the Philippines|url={{Google books|plainurl=y|id=6rpwAAAAMAAJ}}|date=October 1985|publisher=Mizan Press|isbn=978-0-933782-16-7}}</ref> This created a furor within the Philippine Muslim community, especially among educated youth,<ref name="MuslimPresident1994">{{cite book|author1=Macapado Abaton Muslim|author2=Philippines. Office of the President|author3=Mindanao State University. College of Public Affairs|title=The Moro armed struggle in the Philippines: the nonviolent autonomy alternative|url={{Google books|plainurl=y|id=4ERxAAAAMAAJ}}|year=1994|publisher=Office of the President and College of Public Affairs, Mindanao State University|isbn=978-971-11-1130-4}}</ref>{{page needed|date=June 2020}} and among Muslim intellectuals, who had had no significant involvement in politics.<ref name="George1980" /> The Jabidah massacre costed many Filipino Muslims their belief in opportunities for integration and accommodation.<ref name="Smith2015">{{cite book|author=Paul J. Smith|title=Terrorism and Violence in Southeast Asia: Transnational Challenges to States and Regional Stability: Transnational Challenges to States and Regional Stability|url={{Google books|plainurl=y|id=nG6sBwAAQBAJ|page=5}}|date=March 26, 2015|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-45886-9|pages=5–}}</ref>

This eventually led to the formation of the [[Mindanao Independence Movement]] in 1968, the Bangsamoro Liberation Organization (BMLO) was created in 1969, and the consolidation of these various forces into the [[Moro National Liberation Front]] (MNLF) in October 1972.<ref name="BetweenIntegrationandSecession">{{Cite book|title = Between Integration and Secession: The Muslim Communities of the Southern Philippines, Southern Thailand and Western Burma/Myanmar|last = Yegar|first = Moshe|publisher = Lexington Books|year = 2002|pages = 267–268}}</ref>