Moro Warrior: Philippine Muslim Resistance Fighters
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Moro Warrior: Philippine Muslim Resistance Fighters
With Thomas McKenna
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When the soldiers of the Empire of Japan invaded their homeland, the Moros, sometimes with swords as their only weapons, bravely fought on alone after the rapid American surrender of the Philippines. They later joined the American-led guerrilla movement that emerged in 1943 and served with distinction, but their exceptional contribution to the defeat of the Japanese occupiers and the liberation of the Philippines has never been properly acknowledged. Today's show tells the story of Mohammad Adil, a sword-wielding warrior chieftain commissioned as a junior officer in MacArthur's guerrilla army while still a teenager. Confident in his secret protective powers learned from a Sufi master, Adil roamed the highland rainforests with a price on his head, attacking Japanese outposts, surviving ambushes, and gaining a reputation as a man who could not be killed.
Our guest today is Thomas McKenna, an anthropologist who has lived and worked for years in Moro communities in the Philippines and has spent decades writing and conducting research on their culture and history. As an academic, he has won writing and teaching awards and has been invited to present his work on the Moros at Oxford University, the U.S. State Department, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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Moro Warrior: A Philippine Chieftain, an American Schoolmaster, and The Untold Story of the Most Remarkable Resistance Fighters of World War Two in the Pacific by Thomas McKenna
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As a Moro Native in Dansalan, i would like to deeply thank Thomas McKenna for the hard work to voice out the washing of the Moro history, please continue to do so and may Allah bless you ten fold. To anyone curious about the Moro people, we have grown to a large population and many professionals. The current Minister of Finance in the Philippines is a Female Moro from Lanao.
Wow, thank you
Thanks Thomas for recognising my fellow moros, the people of bravery and resistance against all odds. Our homeland is in the bangsa'moro autonomous region in muslim mindanao (BARMM), Southwestern mindanao, Philippine 🇵🇭 . Proudly moro here.
How cool. Thanks for the comment
I'm doing a research on Moro. Is the MILF still in charge? I heard there are many splinter faction
@@srg2872 yes the MILF Resistance finally won the autonomy but the BARMM government is still inexperienced and prone to corruption. BARMM needs time and needs to grow a well and stable economic centered city for the seat of the govt. Which is currently Cotabato, and is still in the transition of urbanizing like neighbors like davao and CdO.
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Another great WW2TV presentation. I am glad that the Moro's are finally being recognized for there resistance against the Japanese during WW2. I look forward to more shows on the Philippine resistance during the war.
Thanks Thomas and Paul, cant wait forCowra
An amazing story. So glad that it's being told now. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Thanks as a Moro weapon collector this is valuable Knowledge 😀
Fantastic episode presented by Tom. Its only on WW2TV that you can get such detailed info on otherwise forgotton aspects of WWII. Without this 'fuller picture' the war that shaped our world now is little more than soundbites and propaganda. More anthropologists needed
Fascinating story! Props to Tom for putting this story together-a black hole in Philippine history. This is something that needs to be told and retold-along with other WWII events in the Philippines and the role of Filipinos in defeating the Japanese, which is sadly largely forgotten and glossed over.
Just two points on the presentation:
1) Tom must be referring to Springfield rifles and not Lee Enfield rifles.
2) It’s Mount Apo, which is the tallest mountain in the Philippines found in Mindanao and not Mount Pinatubo (located in Luzon).
Otherwise an excellent presentation.
If I have learnt one thing hosting this channel, iits that definitive statements like "must be referring" to come back to bite you. Plenty of M1917 Enfields were used in the Philippines thephilippinestoday.com/philippine-world-war-ii-basic-weapons/
@@WW2TV Another possibility was the Model 1895 Lee Navy. One might confuse a Lee-Enfield with a 6mm Lee Navy which was used in the Phillipines in the early 1900's. Quite possible these (now) surplus weapons may have been given to the new "Phillipine Army".
As someone who enjoys reading (and watching videos) about the Philippines in WW II this was a real treat.
We hear negativity ( MSM & Government) about the Moro's but in reality they were Legends.
I'm not used at British English but thanks for sharing the flight of our people in the South. I think the Spaniards labeled our Ancestors as Moros. They're called otherwise according to their multiple ethnic groups in the South Philippines. Lapulapu our first defender of our islands belongs to that ethnic groups. General McArthur probably doesn't recognize him. But he is one of them Moros/Malay/Maranaos/Tausug/Lumad ancestry. Please dig deeper before General McArthur. The islands were once a part of the Majapahit/Sri Vijayan/Song empires/dynasty. Maraming salamat po.
Just FYI my kid now serving in the USA marines but he has no clue of his ancestry. He just have a gut to fight and play a soldier when he was a kid. He just came back from the Nato borders and put a tattoos in his arm depicting his ancestral tattoos as warriors in the Pacific. Idk how he got it but he was surprised when I showed him the pictures of his ancestors covered with tattoos. I grew up in Panay but our ancestors are sailing around those islands using their bangka and yes many of you probably called them Pirates. They're actually ordinary people defending their homeland. PS Mt. Pinatubo is in Luzon north island not the south.
Haha you're asking where are the Moros nowadays? Sir they're still there and always a fighter until now. Watch Marawi Seige. That's one hell of another fight. They all made up of several factions but they finally got tired of fighting. Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao was created. They finally made peace to their Souls and the souls of our Ancestors. 😂
Howdy folks. Impressive lesson on the brave Moros on mindanao who fought the Japanese from the beginning to the end. Bolo knives vs Japanese cannons. Great stories that have never been told before. Well done.
Moro is her in Mindanao until now he's is warriors legacy the Muslim moro
It is good to make it into a movie
Battle of tamparan the maranao warriors fought japanese
Yes, thats exactly what the video is about
@WW2TV when i was 15 years old, i even reached the ship of japanese that they left in lake lanao and their other equipments such as guns and katana.. the brutal death of japanese was in area of LALABOAN where it was called the buffalo slaughter in maranao words PIKHARABAWAN and those other killed japanese soldiers inside marawi threw their bodies in the river (AGUS 1) therefore it is strictly forbidden to bathe there in the river