Andal Ampatuan recently pleaded not guilty to overseeing the Maguindanao massacre that killed 57 people including about 34 journalists. The massacre, which occurred on 2009 on the morning of November 23, involved the wife of a gubernatorial aspirant, and other people who accompanied her, who was out to file a certificate of candidacy on behalf of her husband Esmael Mangudadatu. Mangundadatu was set to challenge Datu Unsay mayor Andal Ampatuan, Jr. in the forthcoming Maguindanao gubernator...
>>>Andal Ampatuan recently pleaded not guilty to overseeing the Maguindanao massacre that killed 57 people including about 34 journalists. The massacre, which occurred on 2009 on the morning of November 23, involved the wife of a gubernatorial aspirant, and other people who accompanied her, who was out to file a certificate of candidacy on behalf of her husband Esmael Mangudadatu. Mangundadatu was set to challenge Datu Unsay mayor Andal Ampatuan, Jr. in the forthcoming Maguindanao gubernatorial election. Andal Ampatuan Jr. is the son of incumbent Maguindanao governor Andal Ampatuan, Sr., the patriarch of the Ampatuan family that has a stronghold on Maguindanao.
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