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2009 Maguindanao mass killings
- A court in the Philippines is expected to hand down on Thursday its verdict in the 2009 Maguindanao mass killings, the world’s worst single-day murder of media workers and the worst case of election-related violence in the country’s history.
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On November 23, 2009, 58 people were killed in the small town of Ampatuan, Maguindanao in Southern Philippines. They were later buried by a government-owned backhoe in shallow graves on a hilltop ...
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On the morning of November 23, 2009, just months in advance of the May 2010 elections, relatives of Esmael Mangudadatu, a town mayor, were heading to the provincial capital of Maguindanao to file his certificate of candidacy as governor when they were stopped by armed men at a checkpoint in the town of Ampatuan, named after the powerful Ampatuan cl...
Under intense public pressure, the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, an ally of the Ampatuan family, orders multiple murder charges to be filed against Ampatuan Jr. By early December, his brother, Zaldy, and their father, Andal Ampatuan Sr, have also beenarrested. At the time of the incident, Zaldy was the governor of the Autonom...
Andal Ampatuan Jr pleads not guilty to multiple murders. Months later, the court orders the mass arrest of almost 200 more suspects.
Suwaib “Jessie” Upham, a prosecution witness who claimed to have knowledge of the attack, is killed by unidentified gunmen in Parang, Maguindanao.
Private prosecutor Nena Santos announces that state witness Esmael Enog has been killed. During the trial, he testified that he drove at least 36 armed men in two groups to the site of the killings.
Zaldy Ampatuan, the brother of the main suspect, is arraigned and pleads not guilty to the murder charges.
Salvador Panelo, who would go on to serve as spokesman for President Rodrigo Duterte, joins the legal team of Ampatuan Jr. He was quoted as saying that the Ampatuans were “framed to seize political power”, but later withdrew from the case citing “personal reasons”.
A witness in the case is killed and another wounded in an ambush in the province. Dennix Sakal, who died from multiple gunshot wounds, and Butch Saudagal were both former employees of Ampatuan Jr.
Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes allows bail for Sajid Islam Ampatuan, another of Andal Ampatuan Sr’s sons and one of the alleged masterminds of the Maguindanao killings.
The court denies bail for Andal Ampatuan Sr, saying the court found the evidence of guilt against him was “strong and that there was also evidence that he monitored the execution through numerous phone and radio calls”.
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