Maguindanao massacre kin pray for '100 percent' guilty verdict

Christian V. Esguerra, ABS-CBN News

<div class='embed-wrap'><figure data-feedback='fb:likes,fb:comments'><img src='https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/news/12/19/20191219-maguindanao-massacre-victims-family-jc.jpg' ><figcaption>Relatives of those who perished in the Maguindanao massacre 10 years ago arrive at Camp Bagong Diwa for the scheduled verdict on Thursday. Fifty-eight people, including 32 journalists, were killed in what is considered to be one of the worst political attack in the country.<em> Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA—Families of victims arrived at a police camp in Taguig City hoping for nothing short of a conviction of members of the Ampatuan clan accused of masterminding Maguindanao massacre 10 years ago.</p><p>“Nagdasal ako na makuha ang 100 percent guilty verdict,” said Esmael “Toto” Mangundadatu, the province’s former governor who lost his wife and sisters in the mass murder.</p><p>“Gusto ko nga talagang bitay, lalo na yang si (Datu) Usnay (Ampatuan Jr.) pati magkakapatid dahil talagang grabe ginagawa nila.”</p><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><p dir='ltr' lang='en'>Naomi Parcon, wife of slain journalist Joel Parcon <a href='https://twitter.com/hashtag/MaguindanaoMassacreVerdict?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>#MaguindanaoMassacreVerdict</a> <a href='https://t.co/VQyVs31IQP'>pic.twitter.com/VQyVs31IQP</a></p>— Christian Esguerra (@IanEsguerra) <a href='https://twitter.com/IanEsguerra/status/1207471238475472896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>December 19, 2019</a></blockquote><script async src='https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' type='text/javascript'></script><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><p dir='ltr' lang='en'>If he would have his way, Mangudadatu says he'd prefer death penalty for Ampatuan siblings allegedly behind Maguindanao massacre <a href='https://t.co/ju6ZbapwXt'>pic.twitter.com/ju6ZbapwXt</a></p>— Christian Esguerra (@IanEsguerra) <a href='https://twitter.com/IanEsguerra/status/1207464013526732800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>December 19, 2019</a></blockquote><script async src='https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' type='text/javascript'></script><p>The killings of 58 people on Nov 23, 2009 was allegedly carried out on the orders of the late Datu Andal Ampatuan Sr., with his sons involved in the planning.</p><p>Thursday’s historic ruling will also be closely watched because the case involves the murder of 32 journalists, who were covering Mangudadatu’s filing of his certificate of candidacy in a challenge to the Ampatuans.</p><p>Communications Secretary Martin Andanar told he was hoping for a guilty verdict. He declined to answer how such a ruling would help stop what journalists groups described as a culture of impunity against the press.</p><p>Andanar, a former news anchor, called for support for the proposed Media Welfare Act. </p><p>Naomi Parcon, widow of journalist Joel Parcon, said a guilty verdict would not necessarily provide closure to the families of the massacre victims.</p><p>But she said she was hoping for the conviction of the Ampatuans siblings, adding an acquittal of at least one “would bring us pain again.”</p>

<blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><p dir='ltr' lang='en'>Naomi Parcon, wife of slain journalist Joel Parcon <a href='https://twitter.com/hashtag/MaguindanaoMassacreVerdict?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>#MaguindanaoMassacreVerdict</a> <a href='https://t.co/VQyVs31IQP'>pic.twitter.com/VQyVs31IQP</a></p>— Christian Esguerra (@IanEsguerra) <a href='https://twitter.com/IanEsguerra/status/1207471238475472896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>December 19, 2019</a></blockquote><script async src='https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' type='text/javascript'></script><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><p dir='ltr' lang='en'>If he would have his way, Mangudadatu says he'd prefer death penalty for Ampatuan siblings allegedly behind Maguindanao massacre <a href='https://t.co/ju6ZbapwXt'>pic.twitter.com/ju6ZbapwXt</a></p>— Christian Esguerra (@IanEsguerra) <a href='https://twitter.com/IanEsguerra/status/1207464013526732800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>December 19, 2019</a></blockquote><script async src='https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' type='text/javascript'></script><p>The killings of 58 people on Nov 23, 2009 was allegedly carried out on the orders of the late Datu Andal Ampatuan Sr., with his sons involved in the planning.</p><p>Thursday’s historic ruling will also be closely watched because the case involves the murder of 32 journalists, who were covering Mangudadatu’s filing of his certificate of candidacy in a challenge to the Ampatuans.</p><p>Communications Secretary Martin Andanar told he was hoping for a guilty verdict. He declined to answer how such a ruling would help stop what journalists groups described as a culture of impunity against the press.</p><p>Andanar, a former news anchor, called for support for the proposed Media Welfare Act. </p><p>Naomi Parcon, widow of journalist Joel Parcon, said a guilty verdict would not necessarily provide closure to the families of the massacre victims.</p><p>But she said she was hoping for the conviction of the Ampatuans siblings, adding an acquittal of at least one “would bring us pain again.”</p>

<p>“Nagdasal ako na makuha ang 100 percent guilty verdict,” said Esmael “Toto” Mangundadatu, the province’s former governor who lost his wife and sisters in the mass murder.</p><p>“Gusto ko nga talagang bitay, lalo na yang si (Datu) Usnay (Ampatuan Jr.) pati magkakapatid dahil talagang grabe ginagawa nila.”</p>

<div class='embed-wrap'><figure data-feedback='fb:likes,fb:comments'><img src='https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/news/12/19/20191219-maguindanao-massacre-victims-family-jc.jpg' ><figcaption>Relatives of those who perished in the Maguindanao massacre 10 years ago arrive at Camp Bagong Diwa for the scheduled verdict on Thursday. Fifty-eight people, including 32 journalists, were killed in what is considered to be one of the worst political attack in the country.<em> Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA—Families of victims arrived at a police camp in Taguig City hoping for nothing short of a conviction of members of the Ampatuan clan accused of masterminding Maguindanao massacre 10 years ago.</p>

<p>Families of victims arrived at a police camp in Taguig City hoping for nothing short of a conviction of members of the Ampatuan clan accused of masterminding Maguindanao massacre 10 years ago.<br /> </p>

Families of victims arrived at a police camp in Taguig City hoping for nothing short of a conviction of members of the Ampatuan clan accused of masterminding Maguindanao massacre 10 years ago.

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Maguindanao massacre kin pray for '100 percent' guilty verdict

Maguindanao massacre kin pray for '100 percent' guilty verdict