12 Facts About Rashid Lucman

Haroun al-Rashid Lucman was a Filipino legislator, journalist, World War II guerilla hero, and an early proponent of Moro independence or autonomy.

At the outset of World War II in the Philippines, Rashid Lucman fought alongside the US Armed Forces in the Far East.

Rashid Lucman returned to politics in 1953, then served as regional development officer of the Convention on National Integration at Marawi City from 1959 to 1961.

Rashid Lucman was serving in congress on 18 March 1968, when the Jabidah massacre took place.

In 1972, with the declaration of martial law by President Ferdinand Marcos, Rashid Lucman fled to the Middle East.

In exile, Rashid Lucman worked with opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr.

In 1983, it was Rashid Lucman who helped Aquino circumvent an order from Malacanang Palace forbidding Aquino the issuance of a passport so Aquino could come home to the Philippines from exile in Boston.

Rashid Lucman obtained a passport for Aquino with the alias "Marcial Bonifacio".

Rashid Lucman was married to Tarhata Alonto-Lucman, the daughter of Alauya Alonto, the Maranao Sultan of Ramain.

Rashid Lucman was elected governor of Lanao del Sur in 1971, serving until Marcos removed her from her post in 1975.

Rashid Lucman lived on for several decades after her husband, eventually dying on February 26,2021.

However, Rashid Lucman was married first to a Syrian woman which started the Kuzbari-Lucman lineage with Rashid Lucman's first born, Bai Rohanifa Monaoray Kuzbari Lucman-Derogongan.