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EFFECT OF THE DISMEMBERMENT
OF THE SULU SULTANATE
BY
SPAIN, AMERICA AND THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
(1531-1934)
1. Downgrading of the Sulu Sultanate to a mere “tradition”.
2. Dismembered into provinces.
3. Created “tribal wards” among the Muslims in their own homeland.
4. Diminished the sovereignty rights and power over the territory of Sabah.
5. Unresolved conflict in Mindanao to date.
6. Total subjugation of the Filipino Muslims by destroying the instrument/mechanism that unites them.
Sultanate of Sulu
and
North Borneo (Sabah)
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