Preface to the 1st Edition

Aqiuno's assassination has stung to the quick even the Western world which has been insensate to the ruthless tyranny of Marcos in Bangsamoro homeland. The Manila tyrant, who started his carrier with the murder of his father's rival Nalundasan, is today trying to liquidate a whole nation living in Mindanao and Sulu. Western reports, as usual have been spreading the smoke of confusion to cloud the inhuman atrocities of this murderous lawyer during his seemingly endless days of presidency. Instead, they have painted the freedom-fighters black, imputing to them motives that might be repugnant to their readers. Jubair explains in the following pages how the struggle of these oppressed people for national liberation is motivated by an enlightening faith and moderated by an earnest desire for honorable peace. The story of this wronged nation is told herein for the first time by one who is in the thick of the resistance movement.	_