DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 March) — Sajid Islam Uy Ampatuan, the youngest son of Andal Ampatuan, Sr. and one of his co-accused in the 2009 massacre in Ampatuan, Maguindanao of 58 persons, 32 of them from the media, is out on
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 August) – Maguindanao Govenor Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu fears for the life of the backhoe driver who buried the victims of the November 23, 2009 massacre in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao and who is reportedly being ordered transferred to
By Ed Lingao Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism First of Two Parts ON JUNE 6, 2011, a year and a half after the Maguindanao Massacre claimed the lives of 58 people, including 32 journalists, the Court of Appeals ordered the
By Ed Lingao Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism ARNEL CORTEZ MANALOTO, the lawyer of Andal Ampatuan Jr. who purchased eight of his properties in Davao City, is actually a young, recently married trial lawyer based in Angeles City, Pampanga, roughly
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/ 02 November)– A former town councilor in Datu Unsay, Maguindanao who was allegedly involved in the gruesome Ampatuan Massacre has been arrested in Surallah, South Cotabato, a police official said on Friday. Senior Supt. Randolf Delfin,
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 16 Oct) – The mother of one of the journalist victims in the Ampatuan Massacre has reported that suspicious persons have been asking her neighbors of her whereabouts. The chilling part of the inquiries,
NEW YORK (MindaNews/09 September) — The families of the media victims in the Nov. 23, 2009 Ampatuan massacre in Maguindanao province have asked the United Nations to help them achieve justice and expedite the prosecution and conviction of those involved
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/31 July) – The Department of Justice should reject the deal it made with a supposed star witness in the electoral sabotage case against former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and charge him as a suspect in the Ampatuan massacre,
KORONADAL CITY(MindaNews/7 July)—Militant women’s party-list group Gabriela today hit the Aquino administration’s apparent sluggish effort to serve justice to the victims of the Ampatuan massacre in Maguindanao nearly three years ago. “Every day that President Aquino’s administration delays the delivery
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/23 May)—One hundred suspects in the gruesome massacre in the town of Ampatuan, Maguindanao that shocked the nation two years ago have remained scot-free, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) said on Wednesday. Rowena C.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (MindaNews/30 March) – Human rights cases filed before the two-year old human rights body of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have continued to gather dust at the regional secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia as it continued
COTABATO C ITY (MindaNews/26 March) – Another Ampatuan falls. After two years in hiding, Anwar “Datu Ipi” Ampatuan, Jr., 23-year old grandson of former Maguindanao Governor Andal Ampatuan, Sr. who was also implicated in the November 23, 2009 massacre of
MANILA (MindaNews/24 March) — The Department of Justice finally began its preliminary investigation into the murder of news photographer Reynaldo “Bebot” Momay, the 32nd media victim out of 58 victims in the November 23, 2009 massacre in Ampatuan town in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 March) – Andal Ampatuan, Sr’s confinement in a military hospital in Quezon City since Friday is the third hospital stay for the former Maguindanao Governor since his arrest on December 5, 2009 as among the principal suspects
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/08 February) — A policeman-suspect in the November 23, 2009 massacre in Ampatuan, Maguindanao who jumped from the rooftop of the detention center in Taguig City, arrived home in a box Tuesday, for burial in his hometown. The
JUST in the nick of time, a Manila trial court on Friday issued a new 20-day freeze order (also called provisional asset preservation order or PAPO) on over 200 bank accounts, 144 real estate properties, 110 high-caliber firearms, and 77 top-line motor vehicles of 30 Ampatuan clan members and their associates.
FORMER Maguindanao Governor Andal Salibo Ampatuan Sr. is, as far as his statements of assets, liabilities, and net worth (SALN) are concerned, a simple farmer. His son Zaldy, formerly the regional governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM),
UNLESS THE Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) moves faster than usual, the clan implicated in the Nov. 23, 2009 Maguindanao Massacre might soon retake control of what by all accounts is a scandalously vast estate of money and mansions, and wheels and weapons it had acquired while governing over a dirt-poor province.
IPIL, Zamboanga Sibugay (MindaNews/24 November) — Members of the Zamboanga Sibugay Media Club (ZSMC) and campus journalists in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay gathered at the town’s plaza Wednesday to join the nation in commemorating the second anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre.
Some 2,000 students, journalists, priests, ulama, nuns and soldiers marched in Cagayan de Oro City to commemorate the second anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre, and mark the first International Day to End Impunity and the opening of the Mindanao Week
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/23 November) – Journalists here have expressed concern over the move of “one of the pinpointed p lanners” of the Maguindanao massacre to turn state witness. The apprehension was expressed through a statement issued by the Zamboanga Press
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/23 November) — None of the items recovered from the massacre site in Ampatuan town in Maguindanao belonged to the missing photographer believed to be among the 58 persons killed two years ago. Reynafe Momay-Castillo, daughter of Reynaldo
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/18 Nov) – Families of the media workers slain in the gruesome Maguindanao carnage will visit the massacre site in Ampatuan town on November 22, a day before the second anniversary of the gory crime, the National Union
MASSACRE SITE, Ampatuan, Maguindanao (MindaNews/07 Nov) – Families and friends who will visit the site of the 2009 Ampatuan Massacre for the second anniversary on November 23 will find the three gravesites fenced off, as workers rush to finish construction
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/15 Sept) – Two more residents of Sarangani province who are currently detained in Camp Bagong Diwa in Bicutan, Taguig City in connection with the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan Massacre allegedly appear to have been “wrongfully arrested”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 July) — Relatives of the 58 victims of the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan Massacre are objecting to the plan of Zaldy Ampatuan, suspended governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and one of the principal accused, to turn state witness. Maguindanao Governor Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu, who lost 23 relatives, including his wife and two sisters, said Zaldy’s claims he had nothing to do with the massacre are contrary to what the witnesses said. Besides, he added, if he was innocent, it’s been 19 months since the massacre. “Bakit ngayon pa siya nakonsyensa?” (Why is he conscience-stricken only now?), he told MindaNews.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews) – Malacanang as well as groups monitoring the Ampatuan Massacre trial may have expressed appreciation of the Supreme Court decision allowing live media coverage of the trial. But an associate of a law firm handling the case
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/14 June) – In May, the 18th month since a convoy of journalists and relatives of a candidate for governor in a Mindanao province was stopped along a sleepy highway and the people aboard the vehicles were
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/31 May) — Eighteen months after the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan Massacre, former Maguindanao Governor Andal Ampatuan, Sr., will finally be arraigned on Wednesday, June 1, according to the Omnibus Order issued by the Quezon City Regional Trial
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 May) — Eighteen months after the November 23, 2009 massacre of 58 persons, 32 of them media workers, in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, justice is nowhere in sight, “the wheels of justice, which have always ground slow, appear to
SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao (MindaNews/9 May) – Two bodies of alleged victims of chainsaw killings by the Ampatuan clan and a cache of high-powered firearms were exhumed last Saturday by government operatives in a remote area of Shariff Aguak town in
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/2 March) – Police officials in Sarangani Province admitted Wednesday that they don’t have any evidence yet that could establish the involvement of an alleged suspect, who was arrested over the weekend in the coastal municipality of
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/20 February)— A daughter of one of the victims of the grisly massacre in the town of Ampatuan in Maguindanao in 2009 which killed 58 people, including 32 media workers, on Sunday asked for prayers for the
SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao (MindaNews/20 February) — Justice Secretary Leila de Lima arrived here Saturday following the exhumation of skeletal remains of suspected victims of alleged “chainsaw killings” reportedly committed while the Ampatuans were still in power in Maguindanao. De Lima
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/16 Feb)—Another suspect in the grisly massacre of 58 persons including 32 from the media, on November 23, 2009 in Ampatuan town in Maguindanao was arrested before dawn Wednesday, the regional Philippine National Police said. Chief Supt. Gil
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/14 February) — The Supreme Court (SC) has “resolvd to note” the city government’s earlier endorsement of a petition seeking live media coverage for the ongoing trial of the gruesome November 23, 2009 massacre in Ampatuan, Maguindanao.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/2 Feb) – Families of journalists killed in the infamous massacre in Ampatuan, Maguindanao hailed Wednesday the Court of Appeals decision junking the petition of the Ampatuan patriarch, former Governor Andal S. Ampatuan Sr., to be excluded
SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao (MindaNews/17 January) – Police and Army personnel confiscated eight high-powered firearms from the security escorts of Mayor Reshal Ampatuan on Thursday afternoon. The incumbent mayor is one of two wives of former Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr., the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/16 January) — A member of the Ampatuan clan has appealed to the public to spare clan members who are not involved in the November 23, 2009 massacre from what he calls a “Hitleric mindset that any Ampatuan
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 January) – Relatives of some of the victims of the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan Massacre filed on Friday charges of plunder, graft and corruption and forfeiture against 25 members of the Ampatuan clan led by former three-term
AMPATUAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews/30 November) – Bishop Colin Bagaforo of the Archdiocese of Cotabato led some 300 bikers and motorcycle riders Monday, in a visit to the site of the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan Massacre, where they signed a Covenant on
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 November) — Whatever happened to the promises made by government officials immediately after the massacre of 58 persons in Ampatuan, Maguindanao on November 23, 2009, that government was going to go after the assets of the Ampatuans
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 November) — The neighbors have gotten used to the silence. The armed men are gone and ice drop peddlers now pass freely on the street where the Ampatuans used to live. Until a year ago, members of
MANILA (MindaNews/26 November)—Failure to resolve the Ampatuan Massacre and deliver justice to the victims will worsen the culture of impunity that has come to characterize the killings of journalists in the country, a press freedom advocate yesterday told participants to
Before daybreak, without warning, government forces as planned took over and occupied the ARMM facilities in Cotabato City including other buildings and premises in Maguindanao province. Armed elements loyal to the Ampatuans were taken by surprise and gave up their firearms without resistance.
