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Early Life
At a very young age, Magat Salamat had already known and experienced firsthand the abuses of the Spanish Invaders. As a boy he witnessed the moment when Miguel Lopez de Legazpi arrived in Manila in 1572. His father Rajah Soliman (although recent research would list Rajah Lakandula as his Biological father) led a fight against the Spaniards which ended up being unsuccessful due to the superior firepower of the foreign invaders ending with Soliman being killed along with his troops in battle. The Spanish were then able to enter into Soliman’s village and burned and pillaged the neighborhood including Magat Salamat’s own home. Soon enough, Magat Salamat also became a chief just like his father before him, specifically the chief of the village of Tondo.

Motives for Conflict (?)
He was able to witness as well the different changes that were brought about by the influence of the Spaniards such as; Catholicism. However the difference between the two cultures and the people was still very much in the thoughts of the natives and Magat Salamat too felt strongly about it. Events such as what he experienced in the past have become so commonplace throughout Magat Salamat’s life that the trauma he felt, became such an intense hatred for the Spaniards. This hatred soon led Magat Salamat into forming a secret society in Tondo in the hopes of overthrowing the Spanish regime.

“These people (Spaniards) came to our country as friends. But they are not behaving like friends.”

He was joined with others who also got to directly witness the misrule of the Spanish and suffered because of them. They armed themselves with weapons planning for a violent revolution against the Spaniards, and even gained the sympathy of the Japanese who supported them by providing the resistance with arms as well.