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12 Facts About Datu Djimbangan

1.

Datu Djimbangan - known as Midted Sa Inged of the Sultanate of Kudarangan, is the son of Sultan Bayao Bin Sultan Maitum, cousin of Datu Uto and elder brother of Sultan Tambilawan of Kudarangan and adviser to Datu Ali in the war against Pre-Spanish and the Pre-Americans Era.

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Datu Djimbangan is known to Kabuntalan nobles as Datu Masbud because he was considered to be very fat, hot tempered and inclined to be unreconstructed.

3.

Datu Djimbangan was known as the thievish chieftain to the Spanish Governor of Cotabato for that once could come to Datu Djimbangan's hand might well counted as lost.

4.

Datu Djimbangan was suspected of being implicated in the murder of a soldier of the thirty-first infantry in December 1900 though it has never been proven against him.

5.

Datu Djimbangan depended for protection upon his brother Datu Ali, who was fond of him.

6.

Datu Djimbangan was considered to be a qualified leader of Buayan and was reputed to be one of the craftiest Moros in the Cotabato valley who was supposed to have been largely responsible for the attitude taken by Datu Ali in opposing American authorities.

7.

Datu Djimbangan took the field in company with Datu Ali and was present in the Sar-Raya fort at the time of its destruction by the troops under General Wood' on March 11,1904.

8.

Datu Djimbangan was trying to hide his ponderous hulk behind a coconut tree when discovered by Captain Darrah, who leaped across a small stream and sprang upon the astounded Moro.

9.

In May 1904, Datu Djimbangan Ali ambushed seventeenth Infantry killing two officers and seventeen men.

10.

Datu Djimbangan Ali refuse to yield and was encourage to continue the resistance by datus of Upper Cotabato.

11.

Datu Djimbangan was conducted as a prisoner to Cotabato and was transferred to the Zamboanga jail to await his trial for sedition and rebellion.

12.

Datu Djimbangan is sentence to five years in prison, his co-defendants to 3 years term, and the purchaser of the slave to a 2 year sentence.