Claim: The Moro National Liberation Front movement was established to help Muslims in the Philippines fight for independence.
Evidence: On 1 May 1968, two months after the Jabidah Massacre, Datu Udtog Matalam, a former governor of Cotabato, issued a Manifesto for the declaration of the Muslim Independent Movement that sought for an independent Muslim state from the Philippines comprising Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan regions. The MNLF was founded as a splinter group of the Muslim Independence Movement on October 21, 1972.