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COTABATO, Philippines (AFP) — Nine people were killed and three injured in the southern Philippines Saturday when a convoy of SUVs was shot at in an ambush linked to a feud between rival Muslim clans, police said. The attack occurred in a region with a long history of violence, and a short drive from where 58 people -– including 32 journalists -– were murdered in the nation’s worst political massacre in 2009. Clan leader […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Guillermo Eleazar has ordered a manhunt against the suspects behind the blast caused by an improvised explosive device in Maguindanao on Saturday, and that left at least eight people injured. “Inatasan ko na ang RD, PRO BAR na makipag-tulungan sa local military forces, hindi lamang sa pagsasagawa ng manhunt sa mga taong responsible dito, kundi pati na rin sa pagpapa-igting ng seguridad sa Maguindanao at ilang mga lugar […]
PNP says ex-Talitay mayor also on national drug watchlist, BIFF arms supplier (Eagle News) — A former mayor of a Maguindanao town behind the 2016 Davao bombing was killed after he tried to grab the firearm of a policeman who was taking him to Camp Crame in Quezon City after his arrest, and shot him, the Philippine National Police said. According to the PNP, Montasser Sabal, alias Sabal, former chief executive of the municipality of […]
(Eagle News)–Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez Jr. has ordered a probe into the explosion in Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao on Sunday that left two children dead and their mother injured. In a statement on Tuesday, May 26, Galvez said the Coordinating Committee on the Cessation of Hostilities and the International Monitoring Team have started their investigation into the incident that also left eight others hurt. The rules of the Agreement of General Cessation of Hostilities […]
(Eagle News) — Members of the Ampatuan family who were convicted over the 2009 Maguindanao massacre will file motions for reconsideration of the verdict against them on Thursday, Dec. 19. The lawyers of Zaldy Ampatuan, Andal Ampatuan Jr. made the manifestation in open court, after Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 221 Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes meted the penalty of imprisonment of reclusion perpetua without parole against them as principals for 57 counts of murder. Also […]
(Eagle News) – The day of reckoning comes for about a hundred accused in the gruesome Maguindanao massacre where 58 persons, including 32 journalists, were killed in a mass murder considered the worst media killing in one day. Today, Dec. 19, Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 221, is set to issue the verdict in a mass murder so horrific that it had shocked world media. Ten years after […]
(Eagle News) — Zaldy Ampatuan, the principal accused in the 2010 Maguindanao massacre, was ordered by the Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) on Tuesday to be sent back in jail from the Makati hospital where he is presently recovering from a stroke. The order from Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 221 came two days before the scheduled promulgation of the decision in the controversial multiple mass murder case. Ampatuan had originally asked […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace has hailed the Supreme Court’s decision to allow a live coverage of the promulgation of the Maguindanao massacre case. In a statement, Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said the “integrated arrangement will ensure that everyone receives real-time and accurate information as the much-awaited verdict on the infamous event is made.” “As the judgment on this case is of paramount interest to the public and to the media as well, a complete, secure, and […]
(Eagle News) — Relatives of 58 people slain in the tragic Maguindanao massacre, considered as the Philippines’ worst political massacre where many journalists were among those killed, called for justice on Saturday, a decade since the killings. The relatives voiced anger at the slow pace of justice. Of the 58 people killed in the November 2009 massacre, 32 were media workers. Various groups also staged protests in Manila to mark the 10th anniversary of […]
(Eagle News)—The Philippine National Police has ruled the blasts in Maguindanao and Cotabato were not election-related. In a press conference, PNP Chief Oscar Albayalde said those behind the blasts in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao around 1 a.m. and in Cotabato City at 7:10 a.m. merely wanted to “make themselves known.” He noted the blasts followed another incident at a vacant lot in the Cotabato City Hall compound around 10 p.m. on Sunday. “They are not […]
In this report by Odessa Cruz, Eagle News correspondent in Maguindanao, some vote counting machines in Maguindanao was allegedly not working, delaying the elections in some areas there on Monday morning, May 13.
(Eagle News) – Former Maguindanao Governor Sajid Islam Ampatuan is sentenced to reclusion perpetua by the Sandiganbayan after finding him guilty of graft and malversation of public funds, and of 63 counts of falsification of public documents. The cases arose over his alleged misuse of millions of pesos in public funds in 2009 when he allegedly made anomalous purchases of construction materials allegedly for the repair of various school buildings, when he was […]
