Weaving Women’s Words On Wounds Of WarToday, September 24 is a day to NEVER FORGET! Not especially the Moro people! Not the Mindanawons! Not the Filipino People! On the same day in 1974 – 48 years ago – two years after the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in 1972, an estimated 1,500 residents of Palimbang were massacred in and around the Tacbil Mosque.
Palimbang’s thousand-fold grief: Endurance — An artwork made in response to the survivors of the 1974 massacre of more than 1,000 Muslim residents of Palimbang, who expressed the hope for a memorial. The 32 granite blocks inscribed with the names of the victims, compiled with the victim community, are hopefully to be installed at the Tacbil Mosque where most of the victims died.
The Tacbil mosque in Malisbong, Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat province. File photo, September 2018, courtesy of NAGUIB SINARIMBO By June 1974, there were rumors that the MNLF facilitated training camps there and route supplies through the area to rebel groups in Cotabato City. In the process the Meyerhaeuser operations got disrupted and thus, the company sought military intervention as ambushes of their personnel by MNLF forces were taking place. The logging employees began to express concern and not a few expressed the desire to leave the place but the military governor, Colonel Siongco promised reinforcement.
The Commission on Human Rights last September 6, 2019 came out with Resolution No. AM2019-183 recommending that each year on this day be declared a commemoration day of the massacre while the Provincial Government declared September 24 a non-working holding in the municipality of Palimbang. A marker that served the massacre’s memorialization is being proposed right at the sight of the massacre – the Tacbil mosque which still stands proudly today in Malisbong, Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat.
Immediately adjacent is a multi-mixed media installation complete with a video clip and an image projection – “The En-graved Seventy-Plus Amplification,” dominated by an image of a white mosque appearing like a ghost in the midst of total darkness, luminous and whose beauty takes the breath away. This was the mosque of Manili, a small village in Cotabato which became the site of a mass grave where more than seventy bodies, killed by the Ilaga, were buried.
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