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Under the crescent moon: Rebellion in Mindanao

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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."