Zaldy ampatuan biography books
Zaldy ampatuan biography books
Unveiling the tragedy: remembering the maguindanao massacre.
THE Maguindanao massacre, also known as the Ampatuan massacre because of the location where it happened and the persons who "allegedly" committed the massacre were identified as the Ampatuans, is already 15 years ago today.
But has justice been fully served to the victims and their families?
Dubbed the world’s "worst single-day murder of media workers and the worst case of election-related violence" in the Philippines' history, the Maguindanao massacre left not only the relatives of the victims and the Filipinos aghast but the whole world.
Andal Ampatuan Jr., the former mayor of Ampatauan town in Maguindanao province, and several of his politically powerful relatives were pointed to as responsible for the killing of 58 people, including family members of their political rival, 32 journalists, and several witnesses on November 23, 2009.
A decade and 26 days later after the crime was committed, Judge Jocelyn Solis Reyes of Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 221 convicted