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The Chinese-Moro Gumbay Piang founded Moro-Bolo Battalion during the war against Japan but he specifically did not take up arms against the Americans.
Other Moros fought against Americans and Japanese as individuals.The juramentado fights alone, his aim is to get killed while killing as many enemies as possible, it doesn't require following orders.
Juramentado - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Juramentado | Define Juramentado at Dictionary.com
Filipino Heritage: The Spanish colonial period (late 19th century) - Alfredo R. Roces - Google Books
Filipinas - Google Books
Filipino Heritage: The Spanish Colonial period (Late 19th Century): The ... - Alfredo R. Roces - Google Books
The Moros were doing it against the Americans even just weeks before the Japanese invaded, this article seems to confuse juramentado with going amok though, because juramentados don't kill random bystanders or their own co-religionists, they only focus on enemy soldiers. They never let the Americans or Japanese have a night without sleep.
TERRITORIES: Terror in Jolo - TIME
On the Road Home
Leonard Wood
Philippine Daily Inquirer - Google News Archive Search
They did it against the Spanish too. One Moro could kill fifteen Spaniards before being killed.
Our wars and new possessions analytical reference - James William Buel, Marcus Joseph Wright - Google knygos
Swish of the Kris, the Story of the Moros, Authorized and Enhanced Edition - Vic Hurley - Google knygos
The gems of the East
You failed to catch up with my points.
I wasn't talking about the mechanizm of Moro rebels in doing their attack, or what kind of casualties they were targetting. My point is mainly about why Indonesians needed proper trainings and equipments. Moro and Mindanao in general wasn't too serious in forming an organized armed force under one chain of command and political and diplomatical support. Probably because their priorities were to defend their homeland and the sultan, not as a struggle at a nation-wide revolution like Indonesia. Therefore you can't compare Indonesians, needed training and proper equipment, with Moros.
Indonesian independence war is far bigger than anything Moros had fought, the scale took up the entire archipelago into the war, not regional like Moros. And the aim of the war was to defend the newly country against Britain and Dutch and form a permanent armed force for the future safety of the country.
Mindanao fought bravely and fiercly I give you that, but not enough to defend a country because they were fighting for local-scale purpose. They didn't even have a clear chain of command, that made many dualisms between self proclaimed Sultans and datus. Pre Moro rebellion saw at least 32 self proclaimed sultans, while pre Indonesian independence periode only saw Soekarno as the president and Hatta as vice president. And Indonesian military only saw one Fieldgeneral, Gen. Soerdirman.
And Mindanao ended up being another region of another country instead of independent like they wish, while Indonesia actually became a country.