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Who Are The Rebels Of Mindanao?
Who Have Been The Mindanao Rebels From The Philippines?
All That You Should Find Out About Mindanao Society
Who Are The Mindanao Rebels From The Philippines?
Congratulations!
Will we soon see headlines reporting real acts of terrorism in the Philippines, assassinations, tourist resorts pillaged and Americans taken hostage? US Embassy warnings to US citizens in Mindanao have already been issued. It's real
Rebels of Mindanao, rich with Anthony's firsthand knowledge of the people, their government and their land, hits hard and foreshadows a wider US involvement than American voters going to the polls are being told as involvement in yet another foreign quagmire escalates. Images are real, and the fictional events he invented are coming to pass in one form or another, just as this book goes to press.
Life imitates art, indeed.
About the Author: Tom Anthony graduated from West Point and spent six years as an Army officer. Following his discharge, he earned an MBA in International Business and lived all over Europe and Asia working for a large US multinational as well as smaller, new technology companies. Tom lived in Mindanao for three years where he had close contact with military and political leaders of the highest stature. His personal observation of the struggle that continues to this day became the basis for this first novel. Tom currently resides in Southern California.
A sample of the book is below:
Today, the Philippine Archipelago consists of 7,121 islands at low
tide, with seventy-five million inhabitants growing at a five per cent
rate each year, speaking some seventy-five different languages or distinct
dialects, less a few each generation as indigenous tribes are
absorbed or become extinct. Five hundred years after being consolidated
into a country forced upon them by the conquering Spanish, the
separations of waters and religions still keep the peoples from melding
into a single nation.
Ocean barriers isolate the islands from potential invaders but also
hinder the adaptation of new technologies. Despite its vast expanse and
diversity, the Philippine Islands was defined as a single nation for the
convenience of the colonialists. After the Spanish, foreign domination
continued under the Americans, who brought in a form of democracy.
Filipinos attempted to make their culture fit their masters’ with varying
degrees of success and often accepted religious sects of splinter churches
as alternatives to the Catholic dogma of the Spaniards. After independence
from the U.S., in 1946, the central government in Manila inherited
a cumbersome structure.
Of the three large island groups-Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao-
Mindanao, in the south, is the most tormented. Mindanao could stand
alone as a nation and has the resources to do so, with no contiguous
nations to dispute the natural boundaries of the oceans. As England sent
its outcasts to Australia, so Spain sent its troublemakers to Mindanao,
La Tierra del Destirro, the land of the exiles. Outlaws and undesirables
from the north were deposited onto this island of Moro pirates-the
Muslim terrorists of three centuries past. Over the intervening centuries,
some things have changed, others not at all.
A war of insurrection has raged in Mindanao for much of the last
forty years without much outside attention. Muslim rebels, who fought
against the Americans when they replaced the Spanish, then with them
to throw out the Japanese, continue their insurgency against foreigners
who send in only missionaries and token soldiers. Brother against
brother, Christian against Muslim, poor against rich, on it goes . . .
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