Editing Corregidor (section)

===Jabidah massacre===
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In 1968, an area near Kindley Airfield at Tailside was the site of the [[Jabidah massacre]], a key event in the history of the [[Bangsamoro]] and the Moro people.<ref name="MoroStory">{{Cite news |last=Antonio |first=Nicolas Basilio |date=April 10, 2021 |title=The Moro Story During Martial Law |work=The [[Philippine Collegian]] |url=https://phkule.org/article/12/the-moro-story-during-martial-law |url-status=live |access-date=September 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210925165425/https://phkule.org/article/12/the-moro-story-during-martial-law |archive-date=September 25, 2021}}</ref><ref name="George1980">{{cite book|author=T.J.S. George|title=Revolt in Mindanao: The Rise of Islam in Philippine Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HmYKAQAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-580429-4}}</ref>

In connection with the [[North Borneo dispute]], the President of the Philippines at the time, [[Ferdinand Marcos]], had secretly authorized the execution of [[Operation Merdeka]], in which a secret Moro commando unit code-named "Jabidah" would be trained in Corregidor to destabilize and take over Sabah.

Varying accounts<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=https://books.google.com/books?id=qyo-Hti0-KAC|year=2001|publisher=Gregorian Biblical BookShop|isbn=978-88-7652-879-8}}</ref> say 18 to 69<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=https://books.google.com/books?id=nG6sBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT5|date=March 26, 2015|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-45886-9|pages=5–}}</ref><ref name="Asani">{{cite journal|title=The Bangsamoro People: A Nation in Travail|author=Abdurasad Asani|year=1985|journal=Journal Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs|volume=6|issue=2|pages=295–314|doi=10.1080/13602008508715944}}</ref> recruits, mostly [[Tausug people|Tausug]] from Sulu,<ref name="Smith2015"/><ref name="Asani"/> eventually refused to take orders from their officers - variously explained as due to the non-payment of their salaries or the discovery of the specifics of their final mission, which they found morally unacceptable.<ref name="Gross-2007">{{cite book |last1=Gross |first1=Max L. |last2=National Intelligence University |last3=National Intelligence University Staff |title=A Muslim Archipelago: Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia |date=2007 |publisher=United States Department of Defense |isbn=978-1-932946-19-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aJHaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA183 |page=183 |access-date=February 4, 2021 |language=en}}</ref>  The officers then allegedly shot all of the men to death, with only one witness, Jibin Arula, managing to escape by pretending to be dead.<ref name="Smith2015"/>

Jibin Arula was rescued by fishermen near Caraballo Island when he attempted to swim to escape, and his account eventually became the subject of numerous trials and hearings. Despite this, the officers implicated in the massacre were never convicted which served as a clear indication to the Muslim community that Marcos' government had little regard for them.<ref name="Larousse2001" /> This created a furor within the Muslim community in the Philippines,<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=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ERxAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Office of the President and College of Public Affairs, Mindanao State University|isbn=978-971-11-1130-4}}</ref> and eventually triggered calls for Moro independence; the rise of separatist movements such as the [[Muslim Independence Movement]], the [[Moro National Liberation Front]], and the [[Moro Islamic Liberation Front]]; and the [[Moro conflict]] in general.<ref name=JabidahBangsamoroHistory/><ref name="George1980"/> The government of the now-autonomous  [[Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao]] (BARMM) acknowledges the Jabidah Massacre as a key moment in Bangsamoro history.<ref name=JabidahBangsamoroHistory>{{Cite web |last=Bangsamoro Information Office |first=Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao |date=March 17, 2021 |title=Remembering Jabidah and the seeds of the struggle |url=https://bangsamoro.gov.ph/news/latest-news/remembering-jabidah-and-the-seeds-of-the-struggle/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318025403/https://bangsamoro.gov.ph/news/latest-news/remembering-jabidah-and-the-seeds-of-the-struggle/ |archive-date=March 18, 2021 |access-date=March 18, 2021 |website=BARMM Official Website |publisher=Republic of the Philippines |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2015, during a ceremony marking the 47th anniversary of the massacre, a symbolic peace marker: 'Mindanao Garden of Peace: Corregidor Island' was turned over to the families of the survivors of the massacre.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://mindanaotimes.net/47th-jabidah-massacre-groups-call-for-stop-on-mindanao-offensives/|title=47th Jabidah massacre Groups call for stop on Mindanao offensives|date=March 18, 2015|newspaper=Mindanao Times|access-date=November 8, 2022|archive-date=February 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202090149/http://mindanaotimes.net/47th-jabidah-massacre-groups-call-for-stop-on-mindanao-offensives/|url-status=dead}}</ref>