Ex Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr. filed charges against Armed Forces Eastern Mindanao Command Chief Lt. Gen. Raymundo Ferrer and two AFP officers in the Southern Mindanao region with arbitrary detention and two other civilians with illegal detention at Davao City Prosecutor’s Office.
In Ampatuan’s complaint filed by his lawyer Philip Pantojan, he named as respondents: [...]
In response to the cry for justice for Maguindanao massacre victims, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo issued Proclamation No. 1959 putting the Maguindanao province under the state of martial law on Saturday morning except for some certain areas identified as bailiwicks of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Its been 2 weeks after the gruesome killing of [...]
Because of the senseless and gruesome killings of innocent people in Maguindanao, Lakas -Kampi CMD expelled the members of the powerful Ampatuan clan Wednesday night. Expelled from the party were Datu Unsay Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr., Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Governor Zaldy Ampatuan, and former Maguindanao Governor Andal Ampatuan Sr.
The authority named Datu [...]
“For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another’s life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who [...]
At least 30 bodies found by government troops in Ampatuan town in Maguindanao province Monday afternoon. Many of the victims are members of the press while others are women. The first report said that the killings has a connection in the incoming 2010 Elections.
In an interview, Vice Mayor Ishmael “Toto” Mangudadatu said his wife Jenalyn, with [...]