Under the crescent moon: Rebellion in Mindanao [Unknown Binding]

Marites Danguilan Vitug (Author)

Product Details

• Unknown Binding: 327 pages
• Publisher: Institute for Popular Democracy (2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9719167971
• ISBN-13: 978-9719167976
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,162,393 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

MARITES DAÑGUILAN VITUG is a distinguished journalist and has won the National Book Award in journalism for Power from the Forest: The Politics of Logging, her first book and a pioneering work on governance and the environment,and Under the Crescent Moon: Rebellion in Mindanao (with Glenda Gloria).

Marites is also the author of Jalan-Jalan: A Journey through EAGA & Our Rights Our Victories: Landmark Cases in the Supreme Court (with Criselda Yabes) which was chosen by Asiaweek as one of the best books on Asia (1999).She is editor in chief of Newsbreak (www.newsbreak.com.ph) and has written for national and international publications on Philippine security, governance and social issues, politics, and the judiciary.

Marites has received awards for her work from international and local bodies.

Furthermore, Marites has a degree in A.B Communications from the University Of The Philippines and pursued Postgraduate Studies in World Politics from London School of Economics and in Harvard University as a Lucius W. Nieman Fellow for Journalism.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Knowledge that can bring about peace, February 3, 2008

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This review is from: Under the crescent moon: Rebellion in Mindanao

Do you want to know about the origins of the modern war in the Southern Philippines?

Beginning with the Jabidah Massacre that has not been written about since the 1960s to the signing of the Peace Accord with the Moro National Liberation Front in 1996 that brought some quiet in Sulu and Basilan. The book was just available at bookstore shelves as the conflict with the MILF renewed in Central Mindanao and the later kidnapping and hostage ransom drama that brought Jolo and the Southern Philippines back to the worlds attention.

From the back cover of the book--"The story of Mindanao is truly much more than a story of war. But war's very persistence on that great island suggests that the peace and progress Mindanaoans crave- Muslims, Christians, and Lumad--cannot be reached without first revisiting the sources of conflict and retracing its tortuous path to the present.

This book is an exhaustively researched, evenhanded, and briskly written report on the Mindanao that most Filipinos read about everyday but have never really known. It holds great value for scholars and pedestrians alike: a sifted mass of detail that often reads like a political thriller.

All the characters of great drama are here--upstage, downstage, and in the shadows--and all the powerful emotions; courage, betrayal, anguish, and even the occasional flash of humor. To read it is to begin to understand, after all these centuries, what Manila, Mindanao, Malaysia and Mecca have integrally to do with one another."