#macapanton abbas

At the University of the Philippines, he was Grand Archon of the Sigma Rho fraternity, the President of the Inter-Fraternities and Sororities, captain of the debating team which won the national championship, etc.

He was also the President and later Secretary-General of the National Union of Students of the Philippines and Secretary-General of the World University Service. On the Moro front, he was the “brain” of the Moro revolution. He submitted evidence of torture and genocide of the Moro people to the Organization of Islamic Conference in Jeddah in 1972. On the strength of his petition before then OIC head Tengku Abdul Rahman and other OIC leaders, the OIC took cognizance of the Moro struggle.In the early 70s, he was the publisher of the only Moro newsletter in Manila, the Dawat ul Islam, where the atrocities of the Christian vigilantes and Philippine armed forces were exposed.

August 3, was the death anniversary of my father. I was just 5 and a half years old when he passed away, so I don’t really know much about him, esp. when he was a young man. For whatever I remember of him, he was already an old man. He was already starting to have grey hairs. He used to ask me to pull out his grey hairs and I would be paid 10 centavos per silver strand.All I know of him as a…