Malisbong Masjid Massacre , also called the Palimbang Massacre , was the mass murder of Muslim Moros on September 24 , 1974 , in the coastal village of Malisbong in Palimbang , Sultan Kudarat , Mindanao where units of the Philippine Army killed more than 1,000 . Accounts compiled by the Moro Women 's Center in General Santos City state that 1,500 male Moros aged 11-70 were killed inside a mosque , 3,000 women and children aged 9-60 were detained - with the women being raped and that 300 houses were razed by the government forces . The massacre occurred two years after Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in September 1972 . The massacre started after the first four days on the feast of Ramadan when members of the Philippine Constabulary arrived and captured barangay officials along with 1,000 other Muslims and never came back . For more than a month , the military would capture murder residents in the area by batch . Testimonies show that victims were made to strip of their clothes , dig their own graves and shot . In 2011 , the Moro Islamic Liberation Front sought compensation for the Moro victims of martial law violence in the wake of the distribution of $ 7.5 million in compensation for more than 1,000 individuals who filed a class suit against the Marcoses . The MILF claimed that thousands of Moros were killed in massacres perpetrated by soldiers and state-sponsored paramilitary forces during martial law . These included the Manili massacre , Kauswagan massacre , Tictapul massacre , Malisbong massacre , Patikul massacre and Pata Island massacre
Manili massacre
Manili massacre
Malisbong massacre