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The Maguindanao massacre (also known as the Ampatuan massacre, named after the town where mass graves of victims were found) [5] occurred on the morning of November 23, 2009, in the town of Ampatuan in Maguindanao, Philippines (now located in Maguindanao del Sur). The 58 victims were on their way to file a certificate of candidacy for Esmael ...
Maguindanao massacre (Mass murder) 23 November 2009: Sitio Masalay, Brgy. Salman, Ampatuan, Maguindanao: 58 (most of them were part of a convoy: family members, including E. Mangudadatu's wife and his two sisters, and supporters of a perpetrator's political rival, 32 journalists; lawyers; aides; 6 passersby that mistakenly identified as part of ...
This claim was later corroborated by an interrogation with a detained Abu Sayyaf commander, Khair Mundos, who claimed that he travelled to the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters with Zulkifli. Local informants have also claimed Zulkifli to have visited the province of Maguindanao. The detained Abu Sayyaf leader claimed that Zulkifli, and other ...
The victims were about to file a certificate of candidacy for Esmael Mangudadatu. Mangudadatu was challenging Datu Unsay mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr., son of the incumbent Maguindanao governor Andal Ampatuan Sr., in the forthcoming Maguindanao gubernatorial election, [14] part of the national elections in 2010. The 57 people killed included ...
Journalists killed in Maguindanao massacre [ edit ] Thirty-two journalists were among 58 people murdered on November 23, 2009 in Maguindanao as they accompanied the convoy of the family and supporters of Buluan vice mayor Esmael Mangudadatu ; and were about to cover the filing of candidacy on the latter's behalf for provincial governor of ...
Zaldy was expelled from office when his brother, Andal Ampatuan Jr., was accused of carrying out the Maguindanao massacre of 2009. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He was arrested in the province of Maguindanao and held by the Philippine military on charges of rebellion, but in April 2010 the Department of Justice decided to drop all murder charges against him ...
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Among 20 people who were killed in the Escalante massacre, mostly from gunshot wounds. 30 September 1985 Victor Lopez Jr., barangay chairman in Tondo, Manila: 23 October 1985 Gregorio Murillo, Governor of Surigao del Sur [55] New People's Army 2 November 1985 Potenciano Baccay, kidney specialist and personal doctor to President Ferdinand Marcos ...