Article: Flashbacks on Sabah.(Opinion & Editorial)

IT was during the Marcos administration that a plan was hatched to use force to regain Sabah for the Philippines, but this was bungled with the socalled Jabidah massacre on Corregidor Island. Jabidah was the name given to the operation whereby Muslim Commandos were going to be trained so that they could be secretly introduced into Sabah, as the spearhead of a military force.

In charge of the project was a swashbuckling and boastful army colonel named Eduardo Martelino. What we know is that the trainees mutinied because their pay had been apparently squandered and the military force in charge retaliated by shooting some of them to death. One of the trainees, ...

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