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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 Mamasapano clash was a shootout that took place during a police operation by the Special Action Force (SAF) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) on January 25, 2015, in Tukanalipao, Mamasapano, then-undivided Maguindanao (which is now Maguindanao del Sur).
At the time of the massacre, he was the outgoing mayor of Datu Unsay, Maguindanao, and was planning to run for provincial governor, the position his father, Andal Sr., was set to vacate. Esmael Mangudadatu , from a rival political clan, declared his candidacy for the 2010 gubernatorial elections , thus challenging Ampatuan for the post.
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 ...
Eden Mangudadatu, Vice Mayor of Mangudadatu, Maguindanao: Andal Ampatuan, Sr., his sons Andal Ampatuan, Jr. and Zaldy Ampatuan and other relatives, as well as members of the local police and militia acting as the family's private army Killed along with 57 others in the Maguindanao massacre.
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Andal Ampatuan Sr. (1940/1941 – July 17, 2015) was a Filipino politician who was the main suspect in the Maguindanao massacre. He was the patriarch of the Ampatuan political family in Maguindanao province, on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. He was elected Governor of Maguindanao in 2001, defeating incumbent Governor Zacaria Candao.
William Laws Calley Jr., who as an Army lieutenant led the U.S. soldiers who killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai massacre, the most notorious war crime in modern American ...