Japanese, Korean, Tibetan and Thai countries
had emerged by the time of the onslaught of American
imperialism in Asia during the 19th century, there never
existed a Filipino nation."
"While other heterogeneous Asian countries can seek
to legitimate the existence of their states by
declaring a continuity -however dubious- with
indigenous kingdoms or empires that flourished in
their lands before European domination, Filipino
nationalists cannot."
"No single political entity ever ruled the entire
archipelago, and those states which did arise to
govern significant portions of these islands,
including the area around Manila, were Muslim.
Unlike other Asian nationalisms, for Filipinos
history is an enemy, not an ally."
PART II- WHY IS HISTORY AN ENEMY OF FILIPINOS, NOT
AN ALLY? WHAT FAULTS PHILIPPINE HISTORY?
In the case of the present dispute between China and
the Philippines over the islands in South China Sea
(Manila government recently changed to "West
Philippine Sea"), the Philippine claim from the
beginning over the islands within Mindanao Sea
("Bohol Sea" as renamed by the Filipino colonizers),
Sulu Sea and South China Sea has no historical moral
ground. This is simply because the "fabricated
Philippine State" can't proudly live up with its
illegal annexation of the ancestral homelands of
both the Bangsamoro and the Igorot peoples, more so,
with its present preposterous claim of owning the
whole of Spratly islands that China claims to own by
historical rights.
Thus, how can the Philippines continue deceiving
humanity with its historical deformity and falsehood
predicated only in plain land-grabbing colonial
scheme? But the saddest fact is that Philippine
colonialism has no qualms pursuing in fooling
humanity of this criminal historical conspiracy and
duplicity.
Now, that the ill-conceived Philippine Republic has
to face possible war with China while still engaging
the Bangsamoro people in the decades-long Mindanao
war, it has only unmasked the Filipino colonizers'
own game of "duplicity, intimidation and falsehood"
to legitimize their self-defeating claim to the
islands in South China Sea and Mindanao Sea.
As currently reported in both Philippine and foreign
media, the word war between the contending nations
over the disputed islands located in South China Sea
is causing high tension in both countries.
Inside the Philippines, which have to peacefully end
the Filipino-Moro war in Mindanao and the AFP-NDF/NPA
war affecting the entire Filipino nation, there are
irresponsible Filipino leaders talking of open
confrontation with China. Worse, the Philippine
leadership is showing a desperate move of inviting
America to help the Philippines conduct military
surveillance on South China Sea. Surely on this end,
the provocative incursion would henceforth challenge
China to retaliate with all its military power,
notwithstanding the illegal military intervention or
participation of America.
In blocking the military incursion of foreign
element in a bid to trample its historical right to
the islands of South China Sea, China had once
"punished" Vietnam on March 14, 1988 in a naval
skirmish by sinking one vessel and heavily damaging
another one that had to retreat hurriedly back to
home base.
Thus, given the same possible scenario, China can
anytime crush any attempt by Philippines to
undertake any provocative offensive either
militarily or diplomatically because the latter
country has no moral ground to prove valid its
historical right over the contested islands in South
China Sea except relying on the modern day-conceived
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLS)
that China has no moral historical obligation to
recognize.
In the recent conference of the foreign ministers of
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in
Phnom Penh, the Philippines miserably failed in its
diplomatic attempt to gain support for its weak
claim on the South China Sea issue. The ASEAN
meeting simply considered the Panatag Shoal (Huangyan
Island to China) dispute not a regional issue or
merely a non-issue, following China's historical
viewpoint that "Huangyan Island has always been part
of the Chinese territory and not a disputed island."
In reality, the dismal failure of the Philippines to
deceive the other ASEAN member states has only
proven that it does not have the diplomatic and
military influence to match its high-pitched verbal
provocations. Nonetheless, it is interesting to note
that in the ASEAN meeting, Philippine's Foreign
Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario denounced
Chinese "duplicity" and "intimidation" in the South
China Sea alluding to the continuous presence of
Chinese fishermen in the area.
Referring to the Huangyan Island (Panatag Shoal)
standoff of both Chinese and Filipino vessels, he
stressed the expected face-saving comment, "if
Philippine sovereignty and jurisdiction can be
denigrated by a powerful country through pressure,
duplicity, intimidation and the threat of the use of
force, the international community should be
concerned abotu the behavior."
On this historical purview, the Philippine
government has only to blame itself for the humility
and failure to deceive further the conscious
humanity because for too long now it has had used
every "pressure, duplicity, intimidation and the
threat of the use of force" (or "military solution")
against the oppressed and colonized Bangsamoro and
Igorot peoples to keep them further in colonial
bondage. The Luzon-based Filipino colonizers never
have the political will to end the more than forty
(40) years Mindanao war because they want to prolong
the killing of more Muslim and Highlander natives in
order to perpetuate Philippine colonialism in the
war-torn region.
Thus, perhaps it is all providential that the
China-Philippines disagreement on the historical
rights of the Spratly islands in South China Sea has
indeed happened. It is only showing the historical
weakness and fallacy of Philippine colonialism to
impose its empty claims on the Bangsamoro and Igorot
peoples, including imposing its "cursed" Filipino
identity and highly questionable sovereignty over
the Bangsamoro homeland MINSUPALA and the Cordillera
Region.
By this historical awkwardness, if in the event the
Philippine government foolishly provoke China into a
face-saving war, however minor or small scale, the
colonized Bangsamoro people certainly cannot take
the gambit of joining the war against the
peace-loving Chinese people. As the "greatest"
heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali, while refusing draft
into the U.S. military, said: "We ain't got no
quarrel with the Vietcong."
In truth, for centuries now, the Bangsamoro people
of Mindanao have been fighting the Spanish,
American, Japanese and Filipino colonizers to
maintain their complete freedom and independence.
And China was never an enemy, but always remained a
peaceful neighbor to the Moro Nation, particularly
to the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo. Formally
proclaimed in 1450 and recognized by China and other
foreign countries, the Sultanate of Sulu was the
first established Bangsamoro Sultanate government in
Mindanao followed by the Sultanate of Maguindanao
and Sultanate Buayan in Cotabato, and the Apat na
Pangampong Sultanate district in Lanao region.
Thus, when will Philippine colonialism learn well
the historical moral lesson that it does not at all
pay to use "pressure, duplicity, intimidation and
the threat of the use of force" to solve the nagging
Filipino-Moro war in Mindanao, if only to ensure
permanent peaceful co-existence of the different
multi-cultural and religious peoples of the region?
On this end, is it not possible for the Filipino
colonizers to have peace with the freedom-loving
Bangsamoro and Igorot peoples and continued peaceful
co-existence with around 1.5 billion Chinese people
all over the world?
Why is it too painful for the Filipino colonizers to
accept the reality that Filipinization or similarly
Christianization of the Muslim and Lumad natives of
Mindanao and the Igorots of Mountain Province is
never a sound solution, but just an ugly face of
ethnic cleansing leading to more massacres in a
continued colonial war?
Thus, again, the striking words of wisdom of Joseph
E. Fallon come to mind, "after so many decades of
abuse and betrayal, for the Moros and the Igorots to
trust Manila and to remain within the Philippines
would not only be naive, it would be suicidal."
Hence, it is about time that the peaceful community
of nations worldwide should be wary of the political
and diplomatic antics of the American-fabricated
Philippine State. The international community should
play active role to appeal to the Catholic Filipino
nation to abandon the ugliness of colonialism so as
to guarantee permanent and durable peace in
war-ravaged Mindanao and restive Cordillera Region
for the betterment, prosperity and brighter future
of the Filipino, Bangsamoro and Igorot peoples of
Southeast Asia. -osm/mnlfnet.com
Related Articles:
Speech of Pres. Quezon Declaring the Colonization of the Bangsamoro Homeland Mindanao
The Sulu
Sultanate
The Coming of Islam to Sulu
Sulu and the Chinese
Why
Did Quezon Commonwealth Regime Design Eclipsing Bangsamoro
Sultanate?