The Rizal Day bombings were a series of bombings that occurred in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines on December 30, 2000 within a span of a few hours killing 22 and injuring about a hundred. December 30 is Rizal Day in the Philippines and a national holiday, commemorating the execution of the country's national hero, José Rizal. Metro Manila, Philippines Metro Manila (Kalakhang Maynila in Filipino), also simply called Manila outside the metropolis, is the metropolitan area that contains the City of Manila, the regional center and the capital of the Philippines. ... December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 1 day remaining. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... José Rizal portrait from a 1902 Painting by Fabian Dela Rosa José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonzo Realonda (June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896), the Pride of the Malay Race and The Great Malayan, is the national hero of the Philippines. ...

One of the bombs exploded at an open square less than a hundred meters from the United States Embassy. Various groups, mostly Islamic groups, were implicated as masterminds in the bombings, including the Jemaahn Islamiyah, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, and the Moro National Liberation Front. A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one nation state present in another nation state to represent the sending state in the receiving State. ... Islam   listen? (Arabic: al-islām) the submission to God is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and the worlds second largest religion. ... The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is an active Islamic movement in the Southern Philippines. ...