(Eagle News) — The “Jabidah massacre” was merely invented by then-Senator Ninoy Aquino in an attempt to destabilize the government of then-President Ferdinand Marcos.
This is according to former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, who had said among the reasons Marcos declared martial law in the country was the formed alliance between the Liberal Party and the Communist Party of the Philippines.
Enrile, who made the remark in an interview with former Senator Bongbong Marcos, the son of the former president, was referring to the supposed killing of Muslim soldier-trainees by members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines on Corregidor Island in 1968.
The Moros were supposed to have been undergoing training for an operation to take over Sabah,
There are different reasons being floated as causes for the supposed killing.
“I say invented because until now I have not heard of anyone who complained about anybody being massacred in Corregidor,” Enrile, who was defense secretary at that time, said.
According to Enrile, “the only one who appeared as a member of the supposedly Muslim training in Corregidor was that fellow who swam across Corregidor to Cavite which was the invention of Montano and Ninoy Aquino.”
He was referring to then-Cavite Governor Delfin Montano, who faced Jibin Arula, the alleged survivor of the massacre.
Arula was killed in what was reported to be a car accident in 2010.
