“All indications point to a rubout.” Agreeing with investigators’ findings of a summary execution, President Aquino on Wednesday ordered the filing of multiple murder charges against 35 police officers and Army soldiers over a Jan. 6 incident that left 13 people dead.
More than two years after his surrender, accused-turned-state-witness Sultan sa Barongis vice mayor Sukarno Badal was finally able to give his testimony on the Maguindanao massacre in court.
A Quezon City court has ordered the transfer of an accused in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre case from the custody of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) police to the Quezon City Jail.
A Quezon City court has dropped a former vice mayor as an accused in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre case following his admission as a state witness by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The drug-crazed man who killed eight people and wounded 12 others in a shooting spree in Kawit, Cavite, last Friday owned two powerful assault rifles and a handgun, an official of the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Sunday.
President Benigno Aquino III has ordered Liberal Party officials to review the accreditation of Ampatuan clan members who are running for office in Maguindanao under the party, according to Budget Secretary Florencio Abad.
Two Army intelligence operatives conducting surveillance operations against two suspects in the Maguindanao massacre were shot and wounded in Sultan Kudarat province on Sunday, the military here said.
Another suspect in the Maguindanao massacre fell into government hands in a remote village in North Cotabato, the police said.
Papers keep piling up in the courtroom of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 221 where for three years, the kin of the Maguindanao massacre victims have been crying for justice.
For a case that captured the attention of the world, the trial of the accused in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre has taken on too long and has become a symptom of impunity in the Philippines, militant groups said when asked to reflect on the third year anniversary of the slaughter.
Police said plastic sachets that contain the residue of suspected shabu have strengthened their initial theory that the massacre that left seven people dead in Rodriguez, Rizal, early Monday involved illegal drugs.
State prosecutors are set to withdraw the filing in court of the 58th count of murder against the accused in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre allegedly due to errors in the list of persons to be indicted for the new information.
On paper, the Philippines possesses many laws and hews to several lofty international conventions to protect human rights and bring swift justice to violators.
