Country: Philippines

Group: Tausug

Date Finalized: 11/15/2021

Team: Li-Chen Hou (lead), Hannah Goldman, Johanna McCombs, Deneb Bobadilla, Nuri Son,

            The Tausug belong to a larger ethnic-religious category—Moro—which include 13 distinct muslim ethno-linguistic groups mainly residing in the southern island of Mindanao (Minority Rights Group International, 2021; Moorehead, 2018). In the early 1900’s American colonizers encouraged those from other islands to move to Mindanao homesteads. This caused the Moro population to drop from 76 percent in 1903 of Mindanao’s population to 19 percent by 1990.. In 1968 the Muslin Independence Movement started, due to this large revolt, the President in 1972 imposed martial law. This led to large-scale guerilla warfare, which throughout the 1970s to the 1980s caused large displacement of the Moro. In 1974 the government burned down the city of Jolo to attack the Moro National Liberation Front. Although targeted against the Tausug, all who lived there, even non-muslims totalling 18,000 people, migrated out of the city mostly to Malaysia (Salomon, 2020). Large conflicts between the groups formed by the Moro and the government have resulted in mass displacements of around 81,000 Moros who live on Mindanao. Displaced persons lack adequate food and supplies, and do not have proper formal land ownership or tenancy rights of where they lived (Minority Rights Group International, 2015).

            The data quality is a 2. Some credible pieces of evidence show that Tausug people face force away from the Philippine government or businesses.

Sources

  1. Minority Rights Group. (2021, February 5). Moro Muslims. https://minorityrights.org/minorities/moro-muslims/
  2. Moorehead, M. (2018, October 4). Stop attacks on Indigenous Peoples, Bangsamoro instigated by the US-Duterte Regime. Workers World. https://www.workers.org/2018/10/39223/
  3. Salomon, E. G. (2020). Testimonial Narratives as Counterhistory: The Stories of Tausug Survivors during the 1974 Battle of Jolo (pp. 153–178).
  4. Wikipedia contributors. (2021, October 22). Moro people. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moro_people