Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Jabidah Massacre, which is also known as the Corregidor Massacre, was the alleged killing of Moro soldiers by members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on March 18, 1968. The Moro soldiers were said to have been deceived to believe that they were recruited to become part of an elite unit of the Philippine Army and were only told their real mission, which was to foment chaos in Sabah, in the latter part of their training. Consequently, they refused to participate in the mission because it would involve killing fellow Muslims and Sabahans, to whom they were related by blood (the recruits were mostly Tausugs and Samals). The superiors of the Moro soldiers feared leakage of the Philippine's intent to forcibly retake Sabah and decided that they had no choice but to execute all the Moros.Witness accounts of the massacre vastly differ. The number of victims, for example, was sometimes reported to be as low as 11, while others estimate that up to 400 were massacred. Some authors believe that the massacre never existed. The Jabidah Massacre is widely regarded as having been the catalyst behind the modern Moro insurgencies in the Southern Philippines."@en }
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- Jabidah_massacre abstract "The Jabidah Massacre, which is also known as the Corregidor Massacre, was the alleged killing of Moro soldiers by members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on March 18, 1968. The Moro soldiers were said to have been deceived to believe that they were recruited to become part of an elite unit of the Philippine Army and were only told their real mission, which was to foment chaos in Sabah, in the latter part of their training. Consequently, they refused to participate in the mission because it would involve killing fellow Muslims and Sabahans, to whom they were related by blood (the recruits were mostly Tausugs and Samals). The superiors of the Moro soldiers feared leakage of the Philippine's intent to forcibly retake Sabah and decided that they had no choice but to execute all the Moros.Witness accounts of the massacre vastly differ. The number of victims, for example, was sometimes reported to be as low as 11, while others estimate that up to 400 were massacred. Some authors believe that the massacre never existed. The Jabidah Massacre is widely regarded as having been the catalyst behind the modern Moro insurgencies in the Southern Philippines.".