Datu Gumbay Piang (1905 - 1946) was a Maguindanaon leader. Gumbay Piang was born in Dulawan, Cotabato, in 1905, a son of the Moro leader

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from his sixth wife, Polindao. He was trained as a

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at the (then US Administered)

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. Gumbay worked his way through the bureaucracy where he served for different school boards of his province. When the

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erupted, Gumbay Piang, along with fellow Moro leaders such as Salipada Pendatun, organized the famed resistance group named the Moro-Bolo Battalion during the

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to fight the Japanese. The insignia of the group was the bolo and the kris, the respective weapons of Christian and Muslim populations, respectively, symbolizing a united front against the Japanese aggressors. The Moro-Bolo Battalion consisted of about 20,000 men. Gumbay Piang's Cotabato Moros used Bolo knives to fight the Japanese, and swore that they would "fight to the last".AP 1942
p. 1. He was forced to retire from the resistance as a

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as he suffered chronic

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attacks. When the

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was liberated from the Japanese Imperial forces. Gumbay Piang ran for congress in the First Republic of the Philippines. In 1946, he succumbed to death due to asthma, and his death marked the quiet exit of the Piangs from national politics.

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1905 births 1946 deaths History of the Philippines (1898–1946) Filipino datus, rajas and sultans Paramilitary Filipinos World War II Philippine resistance members Deaths from asthma People from Maguindanao Philippine Normal University alumni Filipino politicians of Chinese descent {{Philippines-politician-stub