Like sitting ducks, vital witnesses are being killed one-by-one in the gruesome 2009 Maguindanao Massacre in southern Philippines where 57 people including 34 journalists perished in a politically-related violence.
A Philippine police official has
confirmed that a potential witness in the Maguindanao (south
Philippines) massacre had been killed, a private prosecutor said
yesterday.
In all, six people, three witnesses
and three relatives of other witnesses, have been killed in connection
with the trial of the politically influential Ampatuan family accused in
the Nov. 23, 2009 murders of 57 people, including the wife of the
current Maguindanao governor, Esmael Mangudadatu.
Nena Santos, a counsel of the
Mangudadatus, said Senior Superintendent Marcelo Pintac, the police
director of Maguindanao, had reported that Alijol Ampatuan was shot in
Shariff Aguak, the provincial capital, in February, and that he later
died.
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