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JABIDAH MASSACRE
I. Sabah Dispute Sabah is located at the north-eastern tip of Borneo and lies about 500 kilometres from the Philippines. Although Malaysia controls the territory, the Philippines has laid claim over Sabah since 1961. The first official attempt by the Philippines to claim Sabah was on 22 June, 1962, when the Philippines filed a claim over Sabah against the United Kingdom (UK), which has possession of the territory at that time. The Philippines contended that “the sovereignty over the territory has remained vested in the Sultanate of Sulu. The occupation of the territory first by Overbeck and Dent and later by the British North Borneo Company had been occupation by lessee or an administrator, not occupation by an owner or sovereign.” On the other hand, Malaysia’s claim over Sabah has been very much dependent on the legitimacy, legality, and authenticity of the claims of the UK, more particularly of Overbeck and Dent over Sabah/North Borneo based on the 1878 Treaty’s grant and concessions and their effects, since Malaysia was a former colony of Britain. Sabah Dispute between the Philippines and Malaysia remains unresolved until today fundamentally because of the contending claims on the 1878 Treaty between the Sultanate of Sulu and the British North Borneo Company or the British government for that matter. There is no clarity or resolution till this day if indeed Sabah was ceded to the British or not by the Sultan of Sulu, or if it was only leased to them.One thing is certain. Sabah was ceded to Malaysia together with Sarawak and Singapore by Great Britain to form the Federation of Malaysia in 1963. By : Anna Malindog-Uy 8 October 2020
Reference: https://theaseanpost.com/article/sabah-malaysias-or- philippines II. Marcoses wants Sabah “ We will pursue our claim to Sabah by peaceful means, and we hope that Malaysia will see its way to an early and satisfactory settlement, either in the United Nations, the World Court, or any forum affording justice and sobriety.” “I also wish to say that the Philippines will pursue its right to Sabah by peaceful means in accordance with the provisions of its Constitution, our Constitution, which renounces war as an instrument of national policy, and that our country is also committed to the principles of the United Nations binding member states to the pacific settlement of international disputes.” “That it is the sense of the Congress of the Philippines that subject to the lease rights of the British Government, the territory known as the British North Borneo belongs to the heirs of the Sultanate of Sulu and falls under the ultimate sovereignty of the Republic of the Philippines; that the President of the Philippines is authorized to negotiate with the British Government or to take other suitable steps for the restoration of the ownership over the territory to the heirs of the Sultanate of Sulu and the recognition of the sovereign jurisdiction of the Philippines over the same; and that the President is requested to inform the Congress of the Philippines of such action as he may take relative hereto, and if necessary, to recommend to this Congress such measures as may be expedient to carry out the import of this resolution.”
This second phase of the training turned mutinous when the recruits discovered their true mission. It struck the recruits that the plan would mean not only fighting their brother Muslims in Sabah, but also possibly killing their own Tausug and Sama relatives living there. Additionally, the recruits had already begun to feel disgruntled over the non-payment of the promised P50 monthly allowance. The recruits then demanded to be returned home. (Whitman, 2013) What is Jabidah?
- is the name of a ravishing, stunning and beautiful woman in Muslim lore and legend. (Senator Benigno S. Aquino Jr. ,1968) https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1968/03/28/jabidah-special-forces-of- evil-by-senator-benigno-s-aquino-jr/ IV. Jabidah Massacre As the sole survivor later recounted, the plotters led the trainees out of their Corregidor barracks on the night of March 18, 1968 in batches of twelve. They were taken to a nearby airstrip. There, the plotters mowed the trainees down with gunfire. Jibin Arula, the survivor, said that he heard a series of shots and saw his colleagues fall. He ran towards a mountain and rolled off the edge on to the sea. He recalled clinging to a plank of wood and stayed afloat. By morning, fishers from nearby Cavite rescued him. The truth of the massacre took some time to emerge. In March 1968 Moro students in Manila held a week long protest vigil over an empty coffin marked ‘Jabidah’ in front of the presidential palace. They claimed “at least 28” Moro army recruits had been murdered. Court-martial proceedings were brought against twenty- three military personnel involved. There was a firestorm in the Philippine press, attacking not so much the soldiers involved, but the culpability of a government administration that would ferment
such a plot, and then seek to cover it up by wholesale murder. The matter even made its way to the Supreme Court in 1970, on a preliminary issue. References : The Aquino Papers, Southeast Asian Press Alliance, Miriam Grace A. Go Tagalog Resources - Chronology FOCUS ASIEN, Schriftenreihe des Asienhauses, "Peaceful Conflict Transformation" Civil Society Responses to the Conflict in Mindanao Rafael R. Gomez, Fr. Eliseo Mercado Jr. et. al Manila Times, Letters, Joan de Venecia, Oscar Tan, University of the Philippines, College of Law 10 January 2002 The Centre for Media Freedom and Responsibility Moro National Liberation Front. Judgment of the Supreme Court, Republic of the Philippines G.R. No. L- 30894 March 25, 1970 https://corregidor.org/heritage_battalion/jabidah.html V. Confession of Jibin Arula “ Wala na akong narinig na nakatawag nanay, nakatawag ng Diyos, wala akong narining sa labing-isang kasama ko. ako pang-anim sa katapusan, halos kalagitnaan ako eh. Wala akong narinig na nakatawag sa nanay o sa Diyos. Tumba sila lahat. Pagtingin ko
with master-planning assistance from leading generals of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Marcos secretly authorized an Air Force Major, one Eduardo “Abdul Latiff” Martelino, to be his principal surrogate and project point man. Maj. Martelino, who had converted to Islam, earlier lived among the Tausugs (perhaps as a component prelude to Oplan Merdeka, who knows?) and had taken a very young Muslim damsel, Sofia, not quite out of her teens, as his wife. Abdul Latiff named his original Jabidah camp-hideout in Simunul island, Tawi- tawi, Camp Sofia. The Jabidah’s Sabah objective still has to be fully researched, perhaps meriting a doctoral dissertation dwelling on the high palpability that Marcos had a secret predatory stake in the nefarious enterprise. It had been reported that Marcos secured a power of attorney from the surviving Kiram leadership of the Sulu Sultanate, the recognized ancient and hereditary beneficiary of the Northern Borneo territory of Sabah. That instrument was to have empowered Marcos to act, on behalf of the Sulu Sultanate, in matters of ownership claims over Sabah. Who knows, as early as his first term, the sociopath Ferdinand E. Marcos may also have been sallying deep into transnational megalomania References : Buddy Gomez, December 2020 https://news.abs-cbn.com/blogs/opinions/12/12/20/ninoy-aquino-and-the- jabidah-massacre
