Opinion: A Filipino Warlord's Death Delays Justice

On July 17, Andal Ampatuan Sr, a brutal, ugly warlord from the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, died at age 74 of liver cancer in a Manila hospital. He was the architect of the murder of 58 people, 32 of them journalists, on Nov. 23, 2009, although over the next five and a half years the courts never had a chance to prove it.

Ampatuan’s death is n…