History of Sulu Sultanate

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, King Sulu personally came to see the Ming Emperor Judy. On his way back to China, he fell ill, died and was buried in Texas, China. Except for the eldest son who returned to Sulu to inherit the Sultan's throne, most of his descendants, such as his second son, third son and his entourage, have stayed in China so far, and many Hui people in Dezhou, Shandong Province are their descendants.

The annexation of Spain and Britain

The Spanish invaded in16th century. They call the local people "Moro people" and the local people "Morolan", that is, "Moro people's place". Later, due to the activities of Spanish missionaries, local Muslims were killed, and Mororan was reduced to today's southern Philippines.

1898, war broke out between the United States and Spain, and Spain was defeated. According to the armistice treaty signed by Spain and the United States in Paris, Spain withdrew from the islands in South America and the Pacific Ocean. On the issue of the Philippines, although the Spanish did not occupy the' Mororan' area, it was allocated to the United States in the armistice treaty.

After the Americans took over, after many wars, they still failed to occupy the area. The United States conducted political negotiations with southern Muslims one by one, and successively signed the Giram-Bates Treaty with Sultan Moro and Sultan Maguindanao. According to the treaty, Americans are not allowed to enter the southern Philippines, and the affairs in this area are managed by the Moro people.

1903, the United States promulgated the Philippine land law. The land law claims that the land in the southern Philippines that is not occupied by the US military is illegal. The land law also stipulates that the government allows Catholics in the northern Philippines to occupy 16 hectares of land if they move to the south, and the land of former Muslims in the south does not exceed 8 hectares at most. 1904, the American government cancelled the treaty with Muslims. 19 19, the Philippine land law further stipulated that Catholics in the north could obtain 24 hectares of land in the south free of charge.

After World War II, the United States announced the abolition of its overseas colonial policy in 1946, and the Philippines declared independence. Although the southern Moro Muslims appealed to the international community for protection at that time and opposed the betrayal and annexation of them by powerful people, when the US government signed a treaty with the Manila authorities in the Philippines, Morolan was also placed under the jurisdiction of the Philippine government. 1946 The United States announced the abolition of the overseas colonial system and the Philippines gained independence. Although the southern Moro Muslims appealed to the international community for protection at that time and opposed the betrayal and annexation of them by powerful people, when the US government signed a treaty with the Manila authorities in the Philippines, Morolan was forcibly handed over to the Philippine government without information from the southern Muslims.

In the 1950s, the Philippine government began to emigrate to the south on a large scale, and then tried to drive the Maoist peasant guerrillas in the northern Philippines to Morolan, a Muslim-inhabited area in the south, with the intention of encouraging them to seize land from Muslims for free.

Since the 1970s, the Philippine government has pursued an oppressive assimilation policy in the south, encouraging Catholic immigrants from the north of the Philippines to seize land and cottages in the south, and even helping them organize Catholic militia to burn and rob Muslims. At the same time, the designated officials of the Philippine government enjoy exclusive local management rights under the protection of the military.

1972 in September, dictator Marcos announced the Philippine military control law and launched an all-out war against the south. He repeatedly used large-scale troops to go south, killing and madly destroying Muslim property and living facilities. In this context, the most important Muslim militia in the south was changed to "Moro National Liberation Front" and declared the independence of the south. Since then, it has been brutally suppressed by the government.

From 65438 to 0996, the Philippine government negotiated a ceasefire with the Moro National Liberation Front, but Moro Muslims did not stop fighting for a high degree of autonomy. Even organizations like Abu Sayyaf have constantly declared their independence for the Philippines by fighting guerrillas, attacking government forces and kidnapping tourists in the jungle on the island.