OIC mayor of Maguindanao town assumes post
, one of the principal accused in the Nov. 23, 2009 massacre in Sitio Masalay, Barangay Salman in Ampatuan town.
Early this year, the mayor herself was included in the list of 50 more suspects who were indicted for the massacre that left 58 people dead, 32 of them media workers.[]
Among the victims were Mangudadatu’s wife and other family members.
Forty-three complainants along with witnesses said the suspects were involved either in the planning, execution, or covering up of the bloodbath.
Mangudadatu said the Datu Unsay town council has passed a resolution endorsing Monawara Ampatuan to assume the top post which the Department of Interior and Local Government has approved.
The OIC mayor said she will attend to the thousands of civilians in her town who were displaced by the ongoing “all-out offensive” against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (Ferdinandh B.[]
