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For many Muslims across the Southern Philippines and beyond, March 18 is a day that evokes memories both intensely emotional as well as political. In their imagination and the rhetoric of the elites in their midst, it marks a crucial moment in the history of the Philippines that laid the foundation for a protracted secessionist movement in the Muslim South. On that day in 1968, military trainees on an island known as Corregidor were killed. Over a hundred young men, mostly Muslims and hailing from various ethnolinguistic groups, had been recruited by the military into a special guerrilla training aimed at destabilizing Sabah—a vast land space that formed a part of the newly created Malaysia but was construed by the Philippine government as rightfully theirs. Months of intense jungle amphibious training had created much apprehension among the recruits. Things came to a head when the recruits’ remunerations were withheld and when the supply of basic provisions in the training camp ran short. The soldiers protested and mutinied, and their superiors reacted violently. On the night when the men were supposed to be sent back home, shots were heard that left a dozen or so1 Muslim soldiers dead.
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Maurizio Peleggi, Lords of Things: The Refashioning of the Siamese Monarchy (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2004), p. 1.
See Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied and Rommel Curaming, “Mediating and Consuming the Memories of Violence in the Philippines,” Critical Asian Studies 44.1 (2012): 227–50.
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For newspaper articles, see, for example, Philipines Daily Inquirer, March 18, 2001; Manila Bulletin, March 18, 2005; and Manila Bulletin, March 30, 2005. For novels, see Ricardo Octaviano, Sabah of the Philippines (Manila: Central Book Supply Inc., 2004).
Arnold Molina Azurin, Beyond the Cult of Dissidence in Southern Philippines and Wartorn Zones in the Global Village (Quezon City: UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies & University of the Philippines Press, 1996), p. 20.
For a good overview of this model, see Scott Brown and Fergus Craik, “Encoding and Retrieval of Information,” in The Oxford Handbook of Memory, ed. Endel Tulving & Fergus Craik (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 93–108.
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Curaming, R.A., Aljunied, S.M.K. (2013). On the Fluidity and Stability of Personal Memory: Jibin Arula and the Jabidah Massacre in the Philippines. In: Loh, K.S., Dobbs, S., Koh, E. (eds) Oral History in Southeast Asia. PALGRAVE Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137311672_5
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