MAGUINDANAO, Philippines - Despite hostilities ... The Sagayan is a centuries-old Maguindanaon war-and-courtship dance depicting the readiness of locales to defend their lands, their women and ...

Maguindanao's capital was Kuta Wato, now known as Cotabato. The Maguindanaos lived in peace but fiercely resisted Spanish and American invasions. Their culture revolves around music, dance ...

When a Philippine court last week sentenced dozens of police officers, militia men and two political warlords of a powerful Muslim clan to life imprisonment for a 2009 massacre in Maguindanao ...

When investigators arrived on the scene of Nov. 23, 2009, massacre in Ampatuan — a small town in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao — they found the bullet-riddled corpses of 57 ...

On November 23, 2009, 58 people were killed in the town of Ampatuan, in the southern province of Maguindanao. Their bodies were buried in three shallow graves on a hilltop. The wife and sister of ...

Relatives and supporters of victims of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre hold photographs of the victims during a news conference after the verdict in the case in Taguig, Philippines, on Thursday.