Decades of bloodshed pricked the minds of many when Mindanao is talked about. For centuries the island has witnessed countless armed conflicts and struggle for the long-sought liberation- political as well as economic. Folks in the North had always described the deep South as the land of warlords where the rule of guns and bullets has viciously hampered any hope of economic advancement. Sadly, a twisted idea about our Muslim brothers that are flourishing in the South has been adopted by many of our countrymen as a result of nearly four centuries of Hispanic education.
Unfortunately, Mindanao has never had produced a President in the past 115 years of the political life of the Republic. Why the people of Mindanao cannot have one? Is it possible for our Mindanao political leaders to band together and come up with their own Mindanao block? How was that Visayas had produced three sons to the Presidency? Was it Luzon that begot twelve Presidents for the Republic? Why Mindanao cannot have one? Mindanao had produced two Vice Presidents: one in 1961 by Emmanuel Pelaez of Medina, Misamis Oriental and Teofisto Guingona of Guingoog, Misamis Oriental in 2001.
There was one son of Mindanao in the decade of the 80s that the leaders of Imperial Manila had successfully silenced. They imprisoned and charged him with a vague crime called sedition. Portrayed by the powers of Imperial Manila as a jester and was not taken seriously by the Aquino administration. Repeatedly aired every morning through his radio program distributed all over Mindanao, Lawyer Ruben Canoy had called for the founding of a federal government in order to give Mindanao its rightful share in the distribution of resources as perpetually controlled by the powers in Imperial Manila. They imprisoned Ruben Canoy. Since then, Imperial Manila had prevailed in putting into silence any voice calling for Mindanao’s genuine advancement.
Then in a twist of event, this took place:
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