The day-to-day legal clashes in court may have become more intense and personal but there’s still no end in sight in the trial of close to 200 defendants in connection with the Maguindanao massacre case.
Mention her mother’s name and 8-year-old Rhully Mae Montano Shulla quickly breaks into tears.
“Yes na yes na yes.” Pointing an accusing finger, a key state witness on Wednesday positively identified in court former Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr. as the person who ordered the 2009 massacre of 57 people, including 32 media workers, in what was regarded as the worst political killing in the country. In heated proceedings [...]
For the first time since the start of the trial of the Maguindanao massacre case, former Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr. and his son and namesake on Thursday appeared together in court to hear potentially explosive testimony against them from a key state witness. But the face-off between the handcuffed Ampatuans and their purported ex-henchman, [...]
