This memory book, written by Agnes Shari Tan Aliman, a Tausug and a survivor, presents a historical narrative, humanizing the true stories of people caught in a horrific war--the MNLF and Sulu Sultanate advisors, the military, and the civilians.
This book is dedicated to the people who had died and to those who survived to tell the tale. On February 7, 1974, the town of Jolo became a battlefield where the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) fighters, fresh from military training in Borneo and equipped with guns courtesy of Malaysia and Libya, fought the Armed Forces of the Philippines for control of the town... But we know very little about this historic battle because our historians have shown very little interest in the MNLF’s war. In writing about how Jolo reacted to the battle, Aliman has taken the first step to bring this historic event to our attention.