In 1892, he went back to Manila and founded the Liga Filipina, a political organization that pushed for

peace in the islands. Rizal was sent to the island of Mindanao by angry Spanish authorities. He spent his
four years there working as a doctor, instructing students, and collecting specimens of the local flora and
wildlife while writing up his findings. Although he had lost contact with other independence activists in
the Philippines, he promptly opposed the movement when it turned violent and revolutionary. Following
the publication of the Grito de Balintawak by Andrés Bonifacio in 1896, Rizal was detained, tried for
sedition, and killed on December 30, 1896, by firing squad.

In 1892, he went back to Manila and founded the Liga Filipina, a political organization that pushed for
peace in the islands. Rizal was sent to the island of Mindanao by angry Spanish authorities. He spent his
four years there working as a doctor, instructing students, and collecting specimens of the local flora and
wildlife while writing up his findings. Although he had lost contact with other independence activists in
the Philippines, he promptly opposed the movement when it turned violent and revolutionary. Following
the publication of the Grito de Balintawak by Andrés Bonifacio in 1896, Rizal was detained, tried for
sedition, and killed on December 30, 1896, by firing squad.