The so-called Maguindanao massacre four years ago last Saturday is the most brutal murder of innocents in our history. Some 58 unarmed men and women were mercilessly killed in broad daylight—just because they were thought to be with the candidate who challenged for the gubernatorial post the son of the province’s warlord Andal Ampatuan, Sr.
The international Committee to Protect Journalists called the massacre the “single deadliest event for journalists in history,” as 32 of those shot dead were journalists with the convoy. Challenger Esmael Mangudadatu’s wife and his two sisters were brutally killed, their bodies even mutilated. Five victims just happened to be motoring behind the convoys and were murdered so that there wouldn’t be eyewitnesses.
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