[WE are printing in full--today and in the next six days--the privileged speech the late Senator Benigno S. Aquino Jr. delivered on March 28, 1968 in the Senate session hall to expose what he called was “a sinister design of then President Ferdinand E. Marcos” codenamed Jabidah to invade Sabah and recover it for the Philippines from Malaysia. In the course of his expose the late father of President B. S. Aquino 3rd revealed that the so-called “Jabidah Massacre” of Muslim Tausug warrior trainees never happened. Notwithstanding, President Marcos was excoriated by local detractors, international commentators and human rights activists. The fictional “Jabidah Massacre” was a major element in the eruption of the Muslim insurgency in Mindanao.]

JABIDAH!