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- Romulo Mercader Espaldon (16 September 1925 – 27 August 2005) was a Filipino military officer, civil servant, and diplomat. He was the first naval officer to attain the rank of Rear Admiral in the Philippine Navy. He became overall military commander in Mindanao at the height of the Muslim secessionist movement led by the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in the mid-1970s, during which he promoted a "Policy of Attraction" which won the respect of many Muslims and led 35,411 rebels to return to the fold of law by late 1978, and over 40,000 rebels by the early 1980s. (en)
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- United States Merchant Marine Academy (en)
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- Rear Admiral Romulo Espaldon (en)
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- Légion d'honneur (en)
- American Campaign Medal (en)
- Long Service Medal (en)
- World War II Victory Medal (en)
- Presidential Merit Award (en)
- Philippine Liberation Medal (en)
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- Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal (en)
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- Anti-Dissidence Campaign Medal (en)
- Bintang Yudha Dharma (en)
- Jolo Campaign Medal (en)
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- Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from the Lone District of Tawi Tawi (en)
- Ambassador to Egypt, Somalia and Sudan (en)
- Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Yemen (en)
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- Later, riding back to Zamboanga on a patrol boat, I asked the admiral about it. "The rebels who are still in the mountains are watching to see what we do," he said. "The President has appointed Muslim judges, mayors, governors. The government is building irrigation systems, roads, schools. In this area, within a year's time, there will be no major fighting." (en)
- Admiral Espaldon took the floor to hear grievances. An old man, a refugee from the fighting, said he wished to return to his home. Espaldon pointed to the local military commander and said, "Colonel, you will arrange for him to go to his original abode." Another man complained that federal funds due his community had not yet arrived, and Espaldon called the local commissioner in charge to the platform. When the man made excuses about the funds not yet arriving through channels, Espaldon strode to the microphone and thundered, "You, commissioner, will go to Manila yourself and get the funds!" The audience applauded. It was an impressive display of on-the-spot problem solving. (en)
- Before you assumed the reins of the Southern Command, the Muslims of Region IX were in the throes of constant fear, distrust and suspicion of the military and their Christian brothers. The military was looked upon by us as an enemy and the Christian Filipino as his ally.
Your assumption as Commander of SOUTHCOM transformed a situation of potential fratricidal war into one of cooperative brotherliness and of fruitful co-existence.
You have put away the fears from our communities and erased the distrust and suspicions from our minds.
This is your most important achievement as far as the Muslim communities of Autonomous Region IX are concerned.
You have accomplished even more.
You have raised the quality of our livelihood and way of living. You have helped us elevate our places of prayer from Nipa structures to concrete and beautiful edifices; set up cultural centers where Islam may be taught as a religion and a culture that are contributive to Philippine civilization.
You have given us public markets where we may sell our catch from the sea and the produce from our farms; given us roads whereon to carry these from dungkaan and farm to the final consumer. You have constructed rock causeways for us to dock with safety and waterworks where with to secure safe and abundant potable water.
From objects of traditional government neglect you have elevated us, the Muslims of Autonomous Region IX, into first class citizens attended to by the government and its various instrumentalities on equal footing with our Christian brothers.
Now therefore we, representing the Muslim communities of Autonomous Region IX, confer upon you Rear Admiral Romulo M. Espaldon, the Honorary Title of SULTAN MAKASANYANG.
GIVEN this 22nd day of SAFFAR 1401 , Zamboanga City, Philippines. (en)
- Through a series of negotiation and dialogues, a number of MNLF armed combatants returned to the fold of the government and embraced the offer of peace and reconciliation as well as the promise of rehabilitation and resettlement – in line with the main promise of ending decades long of oppression and discrimination against Muslims and Lumads in Mindanao. Central to this campaign of reconciliation was Rear Admiral Romulo M. Espaldon, a native of Tawi-Tawi, tasked to dialogue with the MNLF in the thrust for finding a lasting peace in Mindanao. (en)
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- Romulo Mercader Espaldon (16 September 1925 – 27 August 2005) was a Filipino military officer, civil servant, and diplomat. He was the first naval officer to attain the rank of Rear Admiral in the Philippine Navy. He became overall military commander in Mindanao at the height of the Muslim secessionist movement led by the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in the mid-1970s, during which he promoted a "Policy of Attraction" which won the respect of many Muslims and led 35,411 rebels to return to the fold of law by late 1978, and over 40,000 rebels by the early 1980s. (en)
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