Any member of several Muslim peoples living in the southern Philippines. The Moros, who constitute about 5% of the Philippine population, are not ethnically different from other Filipinos, but, with a separate Islamic faith and local cultures, they have been the object of prejudice and neglect. They have a centuries-long history of conflict with ruling powers: first with Roman Catholic Spanish colonialists (16th-19th century), later with U.S. occupation troops, and finally with the independent Philippine government. Although the Moro National Liberation Front which espoused Moro separatism and led a violent insurgency in the late 1960s and '70s split into factions at the end of the 1970s, the insurgency continued. Provisions for the expansion of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, established in the late 1980s, were included in a 1996 treaty, but some separatists continue to hold out for complete independence
{i} family name; Aldo Moro (1916-1978), Italian statesman and prime minister from 1963 to 1968 ( kidnapped and murdered in 1978 by Red Brigades terrorists)
a terrorist group in the southern Philippines formed in 1977 to establish an independent Islamic state for the Moros; have clashed with troops at United States bases
born Sept. 23, 1916, Maglie, Italy died May 9, 1978, near or in Rome Italian politician and premier of Italy (1963-64, 1964-66, 1966-68, 1974-76, 1976). A professor of law at the University of Bari, he was elected to the legislature in 1946. He served in several cabinet posts, then became secretary of the Christian Democrat Party (1959-63). As premier of Italy, he included socialists in his coalition governments. In 1976 he became president of the Christian Democrats and remained influential in Italian politics. In 1978 he was kidnapped in Rome by the Red Brigades; after the government refused to release Red Brigades members on trial in Turin, he was murdered by his captors