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Bud Dajo: Americans, Filipinos, and Moros

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The Explainer: Manuel L. Quezon III

<p>LAST Monday, President Rodrigo Duterte showed a set of photos to the audience attending a mass oath-taking before the chief executive in Malacañan Palace. It is the story of the Battle of Bud Dajo,–a massacre, in blunt terms—that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has brought up time and again, locally and internationally, as the foundation of his argument that the Philippines ought to chart a different course with regards to Philippine-American relations.</p>

LAST Monday, President Rodrigo Duterte showed a set of photos to the audience attending a mass oath-taking before the chief executive in Malacañan Palace. It is the story of the Battle of Bud Dajo,–a massacre, in blunt terms—that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has brought up time and again, locally and internationally, as the foundation of his argument that the Philippines ought to chart a different course with regards to Philippine-American relations.