Another Maguindanao massacre suspect falls
By Marlon Ramos
Another suspect in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre has been captured by government forces.
Another suspect in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre has been captured by government forces.
The backhoe operator in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre is asking a Quezon City court not to push through with his arraignment and transfer to a jail at Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City.
Former governor Zaldy Ampatuan, an accused in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre case, is asking permission to travel to Cotabato City to attend the graduation of his eldest son.
A Quezon City judge has denied the prosecution’s request that two policemen testify in opposition to the bail petition filed by 26 of the accused in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre case.
Policemen shot dead a suspect in the Maguindanao massacre when he resisted arrest and engaged them in a shootout in Datu Unsay, Maguindanao, while another suspect was arrested in a separate operation in another town in the same province, authorities reported Saturday.
The Office of the Solicitor General asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its earlier decision banning the live broadcast coverage of court hearings of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre.
Dozens of members of a clan whose leaders are on trial for the Philippines’ worst political massacre are candidates in 2013 elections, some for President Benigno Aquino’s party, media and rights groups said Friday.
Lawmakers on Friday urged the Supreme Court to intervene in the Maguindanao massacre trial to expedite its proceedings.
Authorities on Friday defused a bomb packed into a motorcycle abandoned along the path of the convoy of Maguindanao Governor Esmael Mangudadatu, who was on his way to a village here to attend the third anniversary rites of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre, which claimed the lives of 58 people, including his wife, several relatives and supporters, and 32 media workers.
The trip of Maguindanao Governor Esmael Mangudadatu’s convoy to the massacre site in Barangay (village) Salman here was delayed after a motorcycle suspected to have been rigged with a bomb was found abandoned along its route around 10 a.m.
A soldier allegedly shot dead a nephew of former Maguindanao Governor Andal Ampatuan Sr. in Ampatuan town Friday night, police and relatives said.
Philippines authorities have arrested another man in relation to the country’s worst political massacre which left 58 people dead in 2009, a police official said on Friday.
Police in Surallah, South Cotabato, arrested on Thursday a former militiaman associated with the Ampatuan clan on suspicion of involvement in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre.
