Maguindanao Massacre Leaders, Others Guilty in Marathon Trial

Dec 20, 2019

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After 10 years of legal wrangling, a Manila court today (December 19) convicted 42 members of a Mindanao warlord’s family of the savage murder of 58 people, 32 of them journalists and the others political rivals, in a massacre that shocked the world and demonstrated the ruthless nature of local Philippine politics.

Brothers Zaldy and Andal “Unsay” Ampatu…

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