The case also exemplified the violence that tars the record of elections in the country. The Ampatuans were the ruling clan in Maguindanao: Andal Ampatuan Sr. was governor of the province and Andal Jr ...

Pamplona Mayor and Negros Oriental 3rd District Representative-elect Janice Degamo said she wants marathon hearings for a ...

including Andal Ampatuan Sr. Some 80 suspects still remain at large. Thursday’s trial involved 101 suspects, including those who planned the massacre. “We know who we have a strong case ...

Dec. 6, 2009 – Sixty-two arrests were made including those of the Ampatuan patriarch and his four sons. Dec. 8, 2009 – The Supreme Court granted DOJ’s request that the murder cases be ...

and his sons Anwar Jr. and Anwar Sajid appeal guilty verdict in Ampatuan Massacre case, The STAR's Janvic Mateo reports. December 19, 2019 Although the guilty verdict on the massacre is welcome ...

Even in death, Andal Ampatuan Sr. will have to answer for the massacre of 58 people nearly six years ago in a town bearing his name, the deadliest election-related violence in the country.

The department ordered that Ampatuan be reinstated in the murder case. “After a review of the records, the Court resolves to deny the petition for failure to show that the Court of Appeals ...

Not only that, only 3 of 10 cases brought by government prosecutors result in a conviction. The Ampatuan family monopolized public office in Maguinadanao. The clan patriarch was governor ...

At least two lawyers representing private complainants oppose the decision of state prosecutors to rest their case against primary suspect Andal “Unsay” Ampatuan Jr and 27 others in the most ...

including Andal Ampatuan Sr. Some 80 suspects still remain at large. Thursday’s trial involved 101 suspects, including those who planned the massacre. “We know who we have a strong case ...