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pictures of ampatuan masscre.

http://mabuhaycity.com/photoplog/image-maguindanao-massacre-photos-images-1577/

is there any foreigners that got killed?

is there any foreigners that got killed?

No foreigners. 24 journalist, 2 lawyers, some family members of the Mangadadatu clan and some people who were just on the road travelling to another place and unfortunately they were in the tail of the convoy of the Mangadadatu group.

i hope justice will be served and GMA should stay out of it.... unless she wants to be tagged as mastermind

No foreigners. 24 journalist, 2 lawyers, some family members of the Mangadadatu clan and some people who were just on the road travelling to another place and unfortunately they were in the tail of the convoy of the Mangadadatu group.

damn. even the people who is not involve with anything got killed. thats some bad luck ****

damn. even the people who is not involve with anything got killed. thats some bad luck ****

one person was only going to the hospital to get a ct scan. still he was abducted to avoid any witnesses

pictures of ampatuan masscre.

http://mabuhaycity.com/photoplog/image-maguindanao-massacre-photos-images-1577/

pucha binaril ba sa ari ang mga lalaki?

pucha binaril ba sa ari ang mga lalaki?

eto matindi bro, hinihiwa daw sa kepyas ang mga babae

eto matindi bro, hinihiwa daw sa kepyas ang mga babae

talaga? di ko narinig yan sa news ah

that is sum fcked up ****.

pucha....baha, lindol, sunog, recession, hahirapan, mga taong kaya gumawa nag ganito........

tang na.....di ko na alam kung san pupunta mundong to.

dnt believe in that fckin 2012 end of the world ****..... but you cant ignore teh fckin signs of the times.

puta....wala pa akong sariling pamilya, di ko pa nabibili dream car ko....matatapos na mundo. muahahaha.

eto matindi bro, hinihiwa daw sa kepyas ang mga babae

anong klaseng tao ang mga yan na pumapatay ng tao kahit walang rason.

pucha binaril ba sa ari ang mga lalaki?

Lagi grabe kaayo bay. Hindi gawain ng tao yan na may matino na isipan. Grabe sadist talaga.

Sana mahuli lahat ng pumatay hindi lang dapat si Andal Ampatuan ang makulong dapat halat. Pati mga mga pulis at sundalo na naka distino dun.

Impossible naman wala silang alam. Alam nga ng ordinaryo na tao dun mga police pa kaya..

Lagi grabe kaayo bay. Hindi gawain ng tao yan na may matino na isipan. Grabe sadist talaga.

Sana mahuli lahat ng pumatay hindi lang dapat si Andal Ampatuan ang makulong dapat halat. Pati mga mga pulis at sundalo na naka distino dun.

Impossible naman wala silang alam. Alam nga ng ordinaryo na tao dun mga police pa kaya..

walang problema na bay. last nako nakita sa news naay isa sa mga gwardya ni pyait kay na konsensya. dapat apilon ang isa pa ka ig suon an og amahan kay cgorado ko involve pud to mga animala to. way mu lihok og in ana ka dako na di mu konsulta sa ilang patriarch

walang problema na bay. last nako nakita sa news naay isa sa mga gwardya ni pyait kay na konsensya. dapat apilon ang isa pa ka ig suon an og amahan kay cgorado ko involve pud to mga animala to. way mu lihok og in ana ka dako na di mu konsulta sa ilang patriarch

tiga saan ka ba sa mindanao?

eto matindi bro, hinihiwa daw sa kepyas ang mga babae

that's ****in horrible

tiga saan ka ba sa mindanao?

agusan del norte, layo2 ra sa trahedya

agusan del norte, layo2 ra sa trahedya

nakita ko sa map malayo nga ah.

amfotah para lang kumakatay ng manok ang mga hinayupak!

amfotah para lang kumakatay ng manok ang mga hinayupak!



you should run for office there ed....i'd love to see you slaughtered on the side of the road

Karumaldumal...........

you should run for office there ed....i'd love to see you slaughtered on the side of the road









You better pray I shouldn't, coz once I got elected I'll blow your f@ckin head off !!!

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Blog of Jun Mercado, OMI

November 23rd is now etched in the history of the province as the day of shameless ignominy.

On that day, a convoy of women of the Mangudadatu clan accompanied by media people and their women lawyers headed for the provincial capitol in Sharif Aguak municipality was stopped by forces of the Philippine National Police.

These police forces were accompanied by hundreds of armed civilian volunteer organizations (under the command of the PNP) along the national highway in Ampatuan municipality.

The convoy was instructed to take the farm road leading to a deep hole meant to be the mass grave of the entire convoy members, including occupants of other vehicles that happened to follow the convoy.

I am beginning to piece the story of the tragic massacre.

It all began about three weeks ago with a Commission on Elections (Comelec) Resolution directing the transfer of the Comelec Satellite Office from Cotabato City to the Provincial Capitol in Maguindanao.

Then another resolution was issued, this time directing all candidates in the province to file their certificates of candidacy at the provincial ‘capitol.’

These resolutions looked innocent when read and seen outside the provincial’s concrete political context.

Anyone in the place knows that the said resolutions follow the logic of the local politics and the control over the Comelec on the ground.

Comelec cannot feign ignorance of these realities nor washes its hands in the ensuing massacre in Maguindanao.

The concrete experiences of 2004 and 2007 elections and the participation of Comelec in the province are too gross to ignore.

There is a reason and definitely politics in the physical shifting ‘capitol’ sites in the province. There is a need to locate the ‘capitol’ in a place to ensure total control.

For this reason, Maguindanao can qualify to put the capitol building on wheels.

It began in Cotabato City; then Datu Udtog moved it to Pagalungan; post-Datu Udtog, it was moved back to Cotabato City; then it was moved to Maganoy (Sharif Aguak); Zacaria Candao moved it back to Cotabato City; then he moved it to a new site in Sultan Kudarat.

The Ampatuan moved the ‘capitol’ back to Maganoy where it now stands.

The total control of the capitol ensures absolute control over all government machineries in the capitol site, including the Comelec, the PNP, and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

Months ago, the buzz in the province and in Cotabato City has been the looming political contest between the Ampatuan clan, the present unquestioned ruler of the province and the ARMM (Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao), and the Mangudadatu clan.

Everybody in town is actually surprised by this challenge coming from the four Mangudadatu young, daring, and dazzling brothers (two mayors, one vice mayor and one assemblyman of the Regional Assembly of the ARMM).

The leader of the clan and the main challenger is the present Vice Mayor of Buluan, Datu Ismael ‘Toto’ Mangudadatu.

The challenge came as a big surprise, because the Ampatuan clan is ‘intimately’ connected to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and the Lakas-Kampi-CMD Party both in 2004 and 2007 national elections.

The convergence of the political and electoral agenda of President Arroyo and the Ampatuans is well known both in the national and local levels.

The challenge emerged when talks that the ‘senior’ Ampatuan is no longer qualified to run as governor of the province.

The name of the ‘junior’ Ampatuan has begun to surface as the clan bet for who they thought would run for the uncontested governorship in the province come May 2010.

This development sparked talks and counter-talks of contesting the governorship, which led to shifting political alliances, especially with the waning of the star of Malacañang and her official candidates.

The relations between President Arroyo and the Ampatuans hinged on a symbiosis of political and electoral interests and as demonstrated by the clan’s ‘outstanding’ delivery capacity in all electoral exercises held in the province of Maguindanao.

When we speak of captive electorate, I refer to ‘managed’ and ‘owned’ elections.

Political parties and candidates also refer to the entire ARMM as ‘captive’ electorate. This is not a simple perception but the ‘actual ballot’ counts’ attest to this ‘winner take all’ elections.

This fact is known also to the Comelec.

No doubt, if electoral anomalies happen, the people who manage and secure the elections are equally controlled.

In most instances, the teachers and officials of the Comelec, including the PNP have little or no choices at all.

Their lives and their families, as well, are in jeopardy.

The Comelec resolution transferring its satellite office in Sharif Aguak and the requirement to file the certificates of candidacy in the ‘capitol’ is NOT as innocent as it looks unless Comelec were born yesterday!

This Comelec decision has forced the Mangudadatu to go into the heartland of the Ampatuan clan.

The Vice Mayor Toto Mangudadatu decided to go and file his certificate of candidacy.

But he was prevailed upon by the mother to let the women do the filing.

The clan believed that Toto’s presence in Aguak may lead to actual bloodshed.

The mother and the religious leaders believed that an all-women delegation accompanied by media people and women lawyers would be respected.

Islam strongly enjoins believers to respect women and children even during times of war.

As a double insurance for the delegation, the Mangudadatu has asked for police escorts from the PNP Provincial command. It refused to do so.

Understanding the perceived partisanship of the Maguindanao PNP, the clan asked for military escort from the 601st Brigade that has an operational responsibility for area.

They were told that the AFP does not provide security escorts for politicians.

The clan appealed to the highest military command in the region for a security escort for the women.

They were assured by the highest military command that the ‘road is safe and there will be no need to worry.’

With that assurance, the all-women delegation began the trek to Sharif Aguak.

Upon crossing Salman along the national highway in broad daylight in Ampatuan municipality, the convoy was stopped, including other vehicles that happened to passing by at that time.

Their journey was halted by hundreds of armed groups believed to be CVOs [civilian volunteer organizations] that included some provincial PNP officials and a local mayor positively identified by the Mangudadatu.

The entire convoy was led to an open pit dug by provincial engineering equipment.

There the carnage began with brutality and no mercy for women, children, and the members of the media.

The last vehicle in the convoy, delayed by few minutes, saw the whole gang that stopped the convoy and made positive identification.

It turned back with speed and asked for help. But alas, the help came too late.

There were no survivors!

The first count was 21 fatalities in the afternoon of the same day. These were the bodies left on the ground and in the vehicles because of the haste.

The second day, the body count reached 46 as investigators began to dig the mass graves.

On the third day, the number has reached more than 60. They were all murdered with so much brutality that can only be compared to victims of savage animals in the wild.

The digging continues and the body counts continue to rise. The Mangudadatu can only account for 40 members of their convoy.

Beyond that number were innocent passersby who happened to be traveling the same road at that particular moment.

These innocent passersby include children!

They buried the whole vehicles with the murdered passengers.

Seemingly, the intent was to bury all the vehicles and all the victims in that big hole dug by the provincial ‘backhoe.’

But there was news that the troops were coming.

This made the perpetrators to hurriedly leave the scene without completing their evil intent.

Today, the people of Maguindanao and Cotabato City continue to be in a state of total disbelief whenever they hear news about the massacre as it continues to unfold.

They are stunned and shocked! The real word is feeling of revulsion for how things stand in the province and the community.

The Comelec has now allowed the filing of candidacy in Cotabato and in Sultan Kudarat without filing for an exception.

It has also returned the satellite office in the city.

Comelec shares the blame for this massacre.

Ignorance can never be an excuse! It is a very costly political decision!

Knowing the close ties between the President Arroyo and the Ampatuan, the Presidency and the national government are directly held accountable!

People ask, will there be immediate arrests of the identified perpetrators of the massacre?

Three days have passed by and there is not a single arrest made yet...! Will there be honest and objective investigation of the massacre?

While we debate over the massacre, the perpetrators and the hundreds of CVOs, bearing high-powered firearms, and identified leaders of the massacre roam freely and with impunity. Onli in da Pilipins

Wow! What a f@ckin shame.

Arrest all those those idiots including the comelec officials and the military who were involved on this heinous crime, and round them up in Luneta for firing squad.:firedevil

May your soul rot in hell!

don't u think this is a kind of setup? di ba parang masyadong obvious na move to massacre 51 people with 100+ armed men.. they could have only choose to kill a few significant people with stealth pero parang wala naman significant person dun tapos pinatay pa lahat. Was it done to trigger an outrage or diversion of public attention and opinion? or some agenda we don't know about?

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dapat sa mga yun i-firing squad!!or they should do us all a favor and just kill themselves..

don't u think this is a kind of setup? di ba parang masyadong obvious na move to massacre 51 people with 100+ armed men.. they could have only choose to kill a few significant people with stealth pero parang wala naman significant person dun tapos pinatay pa lahat. Was it done to trigger an outrage or diversion of public attention and opinion? or some agenda we don't know about?






Kaya nga e, few days later nagparamdam na ng interest sa pagtakbo bilang congresista sa kanyang hometown. Kininam!

11 witnesses to strengthen case vs massacre suspects

11/29/2009 | 03:43 PM

(Updated 9:31 p.m.) At least 11 new witnesses will come forward to bolster the government’s case against the people behind the grisly massacre of 57 people in Maguindanao province last Nov. 23, with Malacañang stressing that the filing of multiple murder charges against prime suspect, Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. of Datu Unsay town, is “just the beginning" of efforts to get to the bottom of the carnage.

"This is only the beginning," Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said on government-run dzRB radio. "All investigation will be conducted regardless of who are involved. Depending on the evidence gathered and warranted by law, charges will be filed and those concerned will be brought to the bars of justice."

Senior Superintendent Ericson Velasquez on Sunday said the 11 are from Cotabato. He did not elaborate on their statements.

"At least 11 witnesses will come and give their testimonies. We expect them to shed more light on the case. Our initial information is that they know something about the incident but I cannot say anything further," he said in an interview on dzBB radio.

Velasquez, head to the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group’s Criminal Investigation Unit, said “more or less, what the new witnesses said corroborated with statements by those interviewed earlier."

He hoped the new witnesses’ statements would be included in the charges to be filed before the Office of the State Prosecutor this Tuesday.

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</center>Maguindanao "stable"

Meanwhile, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said the situation in Maguindanao is "stable" despite the massing up of supporters of former Maguindanao governor Andal Ampatuan Sr., the patriarch of the feared Ampatuan clan.

“Our commanders on the ground say the situation is stable. Supporters of the Ampatuan and Mangudadatu clans are gathering their supporters but we are on top of the situation," AFP spokesman Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner Jr. said in a separate dzBB interview.

A GMA Flash Report said "hundreds" of people went to the Ampatuans' mansion in Shariff Aguak Sunday morning to show their support to the embattled political clan. The report said the followers believe that Andal Jr. was innocent of the accusations being hurled against him.

Andal Jr. was arrested Thursday and detained for the massacre and may be charged this coming Tuesday.

Andal Jr’s brother, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) governor Zaldy Ampatuan, met their father in the mansion Sunday morning to to discuss possible legal strategies to counter the multiple murder charges the government would file against Andal Jr.

Last Friday, Buluan vice mayor Ismael “Toto" Mangudadatu – accompanied by administration presidential aspirant Gilberto Teodoro Jr. – filed his certificate of candidacy for Maguindanao governor at the provincial capitol in Shariff Aguak.

Mangudadatu’s wife and two sisters, as well as supporters and several journalists, were killed last Monday while on their way to file his candidacy documents for his gubernatorial bid in next year’s elections.

Brawner said Scout Ranger and Special Forces personnel, along with armored personnel carriers, have been deployed to the area to prevent further violence.

According to him, checkpoints set up by the military had yielded several firearms, although he did not say if these belonged to the warring clans. He also discouraged both clans from initiating mass gatherings.

All permits to carry firearms in the area have been revoked, and that authorities will file charges against violators, Brawner stressed.

‘Questionable suspensions’

Senate minority leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr., meanwhile, branded as "questionable" the preventive suspension of local government officials in Maguindanao because of the massacre.

Pimentel, author of the 1991 Local Government Code, said the Office of the President caould only suspend governors and city mayors but not municipal mayors, which are under the governor.

"We must do everything according to law, so those affected will not have basis to complain," he said in an interview on dzBB radio.

"Sabihin natin questionable, not outright illegal (I am not saying the blanket suspension was illegal. But it is questionable)," he added.

Under Section 63 of Republic Act 7160 or the 1991 Local Government Code, preventive suspension may be imposed by the President, “if the respondent is an elective official of a province, a highly urbanized or an independent component city."

But if the respondent is an elective official of a component city or town, the power to suspend lies with the governor.

If the respondent is an elective official of the barangay (village), the power to suspend lies with the mayor. - LBG/KBK, GMANews.TV

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/178099/11-witnesses-to-strengthen-case-vs-massacre-suspects

As followers gather, Ampatuans deny role in massacre

11/29/2009 | 10:38 PM

SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao – A member of the Ampatuan family, a political clan with strong connections to the Arroyo administration, denied any involvement in the massacre of 57 civilians last November 23 that has shocked the world.

Thousands of followers rallied outside while Governor Zaldy Ampatuan of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) told reporters in his first public statement since the killings that his family has hired a battery of lawyers to defend his brother, Andal Ampatuan Jr., who has been detained as the main suspect in the Nov. 23 massacre.

Among the victims of the massacre were female members of the rival Mangudadatu clan, as well as two lawyers and at least 30 journalists.

The victims were in a six-vehicle convoy on its way to the provincial capitol of Shariff Aguak to file documents for the gubernatorial candidacy of Buluan town vice mayor Ismael "Toto" Mangudadatu when waylaid by dozens of men believed to be acting on orders from Ampatuan Jr.

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</center>Ampatuan said he and his father, Andal Ampatuan Sr., who has also been linked to the killings, were innocent.

"I was in Manila during the time the incident happened. I have a plane ticket as proof," Ampatuan told more than a dozen journalists in his family's mansion in Shariff Aguak township, capital of the predominantly Muslim province of Maguindanao, about 545 miles (880 kilometers) south of Manila.

He appealed to the public to respect the law and not prejudge his brother, adding he will resist a plan by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's interior secretary to suspend him and other officials of the vast autonomous region that he heads.

"We have been prejudged," he said.

Show of support

In a demonstration of support, about 30 town mayors from the region trooped to the Ampatuans' heavily fortified residence in Shariff Aguak to stand with the beleaguered clan. About 2,000 followers, many of them young people, held a noisy rally outside, chanting "long live the Ampatuans."

Thousands of troops, backed by tanks, have disarmed nearly 400 militiamen loyal to the Ampatuans and have taken control of Maguindanao's seat of power in Shariff Aguak. President Arroyo came under intense domestic and international pressure to take tough actions against the Ampatuans, her longtime political allies.

Earlier, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said the situation in Maguindanao is "stable" despite the massing up of supporters of the Ampatuan clan.

"Our commanders on the ground say the situation is stable. Supporters of the Ampatuan and Mangudadatu clans are gathering their supporters but we are on top of the situation," AFP spokesman Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner Jr. said in a separate dzBB interview.

Brawner said Scout Ranger and Special Forces personnel, along with armored personnel carriers, have been deployed to the area to prevent violence from escalating.

According to him, checkpoints set up by the military had yielded several firearms, although he did not say if these belonged to the warring clans. He also discouraged both clans from initiating mass gatherings.

All permits to carry firearms in the area have been revoked, and that authorities will file charges against violators, Brawner said. - KBK, HS, AP with Malu Cadelina Manar, GMANews.TV

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/178123/as-followers-gather-ampatuans-deny-role-in-massacre

7 more Ampatuans now suspects in massacre
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by Rey E. Requejo and Florante S. Solmerin
THE government yesterday said seven more members of the powerful Ampatuan clan were considered suspects in the Nov. 23 massacre of 57 civilians in Maguindanao and moved to indict Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. of seven counts of murder.
Justice Secretary Agnes Devanadera said witnesses had implicated Ampatuan’s father, Maguindanao Gov. Datu Andal Ampatuan, his brother and Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan; and relatives Akmad, Saudi Jr., Bahnarian Jr., Sajid Islam, and Akmad Tato in the killings.
The eight had been placed in Immigration’s watch list to prevent them from leaving the country, Devanadera said.
“They are under investigation. In a way they can be considered suspects already because of the statements of witnesses,” she said. “It’s now up to law enforcement authorities to arrest them since they are still in hot pursuit operations.”
Devanadera said the murder charges would be filed Tuesday in Cotobato City after prosecutors found enough grounds to support the allegations by Buluan Vice Mayor Esmael Mangudadatu that Ampatuan was responsible for the massacre of 57 people, including Mangudadatu’s wife and two sisters.
Devanadera said the complaint was based on the evidence collected at the crime scene and the autopsy reports and sworn statements of at least 17 witnesses, including several men working for the Ampatuans who confessed to taking part in the massacre.
She said she was horrified at the brutality.
“If you only saw the photos and evidence, you would not imagine that a person in his right mind would do an act like that.”
Prosecutors gave weight to Mangudadatu’s sworn statement that his wife Genalyn called him on the phone a few moments before she was killed and identified her abductors, Devanadera said.
She said another eyewitness had said that Ampatuan fired his gun as well. Another confessed that the order to kill those in the caravan came from the mayor.
There was an obvious consistency in the testimonies, she said, and dismissed Ampatuan’s claim that the massacre was carried out by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
A statement from the rebel group also disowned the massacre.
Ampatuan remained under detention at the National Bureau of Investigation headquarters yesterday in a jail cell with 17 other inmates.
NBI director Nestor Mantaring assured the public that he would receive no special treatment. But security around the headquarters had been tightened because Ampatuan was considered a high-risk detainee, Mantaring said.
Earlier, two police officers from Maguindanao tried to visit Ampatuan but were stopped at the NBI gate.
Also yesterday, the Armed Forces sacked two ranking officials in connection with the massacre after receiving complaints that the two were close to the Ampatuans.
Relieved of their duty were Maj. Gen. Alfredo Cayton, commanding general of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, and Col. Medardo Geslani, commanding officer of the 601st Brigade, said military spokesman Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner Jr.
“The relief was only effective today because we could not change the commanders in the middle of an ongoing operation,” Brawner said.
On Thursday, the military occupied the Maguindanao provincial capitol as a result of the state of emergency declared by President Gloria Arroyo.
The National Police has also relieved its commanders in Maguindanao and replaced the entire police force of Ampatuan town.
Brawner said Cayton and Genslani were ordered to report to the military headquarters in Quezon City, where they would be inbestigated.
Cayton was replaced by his deputy, Brig. Gen. Pompeo Limbo, and Geslani was replaced by his deputy, Col. Pablo Amisola.
Earlier, National Police Chief Jesus Verzosa relieved ARMM police director Chief Supt. Pasial Umpa.
Also relieved from their positions were Senior Supt. Abusana Maguid, Maguindanao police director, and his deputy, Chief Insp. Zukarno Dicay, along with three other police officers.
All of them were ordered to report to Camp Crame for custody pending their investigation.
Dicay was allegedly seen with the suspects who flagged down and then massacred the victims. With Macon Araneta, Joyce Pangco Pañares


http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideNews.htm?f=2009/november/28/news2.isx&d=/2009/november/28

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Foreign experts to help probe Maguindanao massacre

CARMELA LAPENA, GMANews.TV
11/29/2009 | 08:07 PM

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Sunday sent two foreign experts to Mindanao to help in the investigation on the grisly massacre in Maguindanao province last Monday, which left at least 57 people dead, including women and journalists.

The two - Peruvian forensic expert Dr. Jose Pablo Baraybar and weapons expert Mr. Christopher Cobb-Smith - are part of the 16-member fact-finding team that will conduct a parallel investigation to validate official findings on the case, as mandated by the CHR Constitution.

CHR head Leila de Lima had earlier proposed for a creation of an independent body to probe the massacre, which was allegedly perpetrated by the powerful Ampatuan clan against their political rivals, the Mangudadatus.

“The outstanding characteristic of this proposed commission must be that it is independent and insulated from political coercion," De Lima said.

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</center> De Lima made the proposal last Friday at a consultation in Cagayan De Oro that was spearheaded by CenterLaw, a group of public-interest lawyers that seeks to promote the rule of law to end what it perceives as "impunity" in the country.

“Given the magnitude of the crime, we feel there’s a need to collaborate and coordinate with the executive department, particularly the Department of Justice, the Philippine National Police, and the National Bureau of Investigation," De Lima said at a press conference Saturday.

The massacre in Ampatuan town last November 23 sent shock waves not only locally but abroad, with international organizations including the United Nations and the European Union condemning it and urging the Philippine government to work for its speedy resolution.

Together with the group that flew to Cotabato City Sunday morning were lawyer Harry Roque, the chairperson of CenterLaw; local forensic expert Dr. Raquel Fortun; and De Lima.

Baraybar heads the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (Equipo Peruano de Antropología Forense EPAF), which is one of several Latin American forensic teams that investigates the abuses of former regimes.

Smith, on the other hand, had conducted investigations into the deaths in 2000 of a BBC driver/fixer Abed Takkoush and in May 2003 of director and cameraman James Miller in Rafah, Gaza, among other high-profile human rights and humanitarian law violations, primarily in the Israeli Occupied Territories and those controlled by the Palestinian Authority.

“We want to see how we can help as an independent fact-finding body for proper identification of the bodies, and in gathering evidence for successful prosecution," said lawyer Romel Bagares of CenterLaw.

Sharing of information was agreed between the CenterLaw and the CHR, who is directing the independent investigation.

“We want to make sure all corners (of the investigation) have been covered, that’s why we tapped experts from the UN," said Bagares.

De Lima said the commission would share “expertise, information, witnesses and evidence, so we’ll be sure with the result." - KBK, GMANews.TV

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/178119/foreign-experts-to-help-probe-maguindanao-massacre

Grabe talaga ang pinuno ng masaker....papatay para lang manatili sa pwesto? anak ng pota :****you:

amputah, kapag gabi daw sa labas ng NBI cell natutulog ang puking inang duwag na yan kasi daw meron daw multo sa selda. Takot sa multo ang gago. Putang inang tong mga to matatapang lang dahil marami at me baril sila putcha kung single lang at mano mano kayang kaya kung bugbugin yan mga Ampatuan mag mula sa mga anak hanggang ama.

hahaha takot pala sa multo ang gunggong...

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