Josephine Marquez watched on television the live nationwide media coverage of the announcement of the government's response to the massacre of thirty-six soldiers under the command of General Teodolfo Bautista on October 10, 1977 by Muslim rebels in Patikul, Sulu.The Muslim rebels led by the bandit Usman Sali, who tricked General Bautista by pretending that he wanted to have a peace talk with the army general with the intention of surrendering himself and his one hundred fifty men.