Bangsamoro peace process

In the late 1960s, an independence movement was founded in Mindanao, the Philippines, to separate the Muslim majority-Moro areas from the rest of the Philippines.

In late 1968, at least 28 Muslim volunteers from Sulu who were being trained for a covert mission to Sabah were massacred by Philippine government troops of Ferdinand Marcos in the Jabidah massacre, resulting in the most notorious state-sponsored killings against the Tausug people, a major Muslim-majority ethnic group in the Philippines. The first organization of the independence movement was the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founded by Nur Misuari. Subsequent break-away groups include the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).

On March 27, 2014, a comprehensive peace deal was signed between the government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. This was after two decades of negotiations started during the administration of President Fidel V. Ramos in 1997.