Ang kabayanihan ni SULTAN KUDARAT na HINDI ALAM NG KARAMIHAN

 

Sultan Kudarat (Hiligaynon: Kapuoran sang Sultan Kudarat; Maguindanao: Prubinsiya nu Sultan Kudarat; Ilocano: Probinsia ti Sultan Kudarat; Cebuano: Lalawigan sa Sultan Kudarat; Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Sultan Kudarat) is a province in the Philippines located in the Soccsksargen region in Mindanao. Its capital is Isulan and the commercial center is Tacurong.

Etymology

The name Sultan Kudarat given to the province was derived from the Muslim ruler, Sultan Muhammad Dipatuan Kudarat who begun to assert his leadership in the year 1619 and reigned in the Sultanate of Maguindanao from 1625 to 1671. Through his leadership, Spanish forced were successfully repelled from encroaching the Cotabato region of south-central Mindanao. He is considered a national hero, and in his honor the province was named after him.

History

Sultan Kudarat was part of the former province of Cotabato, until its creation as an independent province (along with Maguindanao and North Cotabato) on November 22, 1973, through Presidential Decree No. 341.

Palimbang massacre

One notable event that took place in Sultan Kudarat was the Palimbang Massacre (also called the Malisbong Masjid Massacre), which saw the mass murder of Moro residents of Barrio Malisbong in Palimbang by units of the Philippine Military on September 24, 1974,–1,500[6] two years after Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law. Accounts compiled by the Moro Women's Center in General Santos City state that 1,500 male Moros aged 11–70 were killed inside a mosque, 3,000 women and children aged 9–60 were detained – with the women being raped – and that 300 houses were razed by the government forces.

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