The Buluan Vice-Mayor and gubernatorial aspirant Esmael Mangudadatu was surprised when he was informed the he was charged with murder by the wife of Kamendan. Kamedan was killed by Mangudadatu bodyguards last Thursday when he attempt to kill or kidnap Mangudadatu children in JS Gaisano Mall in Davao City.
Natividad, wife of Kamendan, said her husband had no intention of harming the Mangudadatus. Natividad added that after only a few minutes, she overheard Mangudadatu instructing his bodyguard to shoot her husband.
It was earlier reported that the murder charges against Mangudadatu and his 2 police escorts, Sarab Pantas and Ibrahim Langalen, were filed on Friday.
“Kahit anong paratang nila, may abugado naman ako magpa-file kami ng counter affidavit,” said Esmael Mangudadatu who wife and sisters were killed in Maguindanao massacre last November 23.
Jenalyn and at least 56 others, including at least 30 journalists, were supposed to file Mangudadatu’s certificate of candidacy for governor and run against Andal Ampatuan Jr.. They were however stopped and brutally murdered by an armed group allegedly led by Andal Jr.
Mangudadatu had said that Kamendan was a relative and close aide of the Ampatuan clan.
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Mangudadatu Was Charged With Murder
by admin, on Sun, Feb 14 2010 | No Comments
10 of the 12 Maguindanao Massacre Suspects are running for 2010 Election
by admin, on Tue, Feb 9 2010 | No Comments
Out of the 12 Maguindanao Massacre perpetrators or conspirators only two are not running for any position for the upcoming May 2010. Only Datu Unsay mayor Datu Andal ‚ÄúUnsay” Ampatuan, Jr., and ARMM governor Datu Zaldy Ampatuan. The rest of the 10 suspects are running for local post as well as their wives and daughters.
Ampatuan Jr. who wants to become the governor of Maguindanao, which I assumed, carried out the massacre to assure his victory, have his wife Reshal Santiago to run for mayor of Datu Unsay.
Ampatuan Sr., who is confined in a military hospital in Davao City, is running for vice governor of Maguindanao against three opponents, including his daughter, Shaydee Ampatuan-Abutazil.
Datu Zaldy Ampatuan wife, Bai Johaira or Bongbong Midtimbang is running for mayor of Datu Hoffer town, while eldest daughter Bai Norailla Kristina, is running for councilor. Both mother and daughter are assured of victory. They are running unopposed.
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Andal Ampatuan Jr. Plead Not Guilty Again
by admin, on Wed, Feb 3 2010 | 6 Comments
The accused mastermind, Andal Ampatuan Jr., of the November 23 Maguindanao Massacre was again plead not guilty to 16 addition murder cases filed against him. Ampatuan Jr., a member of a politically powerful Muslim clan that was once allied to President Gloria Arroyo, impassively entered fresh pleas of “not guilty” as relatives of some of the dead wept outside the courtroom. Ampatuan, assisted by his lawyer Sigfrid Fortun, entered the plea during the continuation of his bail hearing at Camp Crame in the courtroom of Quezon City Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes.
Andal Ampatuan Jr. is accused of ordering his armed followers to kill about 57 people in the southern province of Maguindanao on November 23 last year in order to prevent a rival from running against him in May elections. The victims included Ampatuan’s rival’s wife and pregnant sister, as well as 30 journalists.
Prosecutors allege the defendant and up to 100 members of his private army stopped the convoy on a highway in Maguindanao, kidnapped the victims at gunpoint and took them to a hillside where they were shot dead.
They were then buried in mass graves, dug by a government-supplied backhoe, intended for civil works projects.
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Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan Approves the Massacre
by admin, on Wed, Jan 27 2010 | No Comments
A government witness testifies last Wednesday that the massacre that happened last November that killed 57 people was approved by the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan. The witness, Mohamad Sangki, said he was informed by a confidant of Ampatuan clan patriarch Andal Ampatuan Sr. that the Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan had also approved the plan to massacre supporters of the Mangudadatus.
Mohamad Sangki said that he was informed as early as November 19 that the Ampatuans were planning to stop the filing of certificate of candidacy of Buluan Vice-Mayor Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu, a political rival.
The witness said that he was approached by Datu Bahnarin Ampatuan, mayor of the town Mamasapano, to organize a police auxiliary force to block the convoy of Mangudadatu’s wife, Bai Genalin.
Sangki’s testimony substantiates the previous testimony of the Ampatuan vice-mayor, who had implicated members of the Ampatuan clan to the massacre of 57 people in Maguindanao province last November 23.
Meanwhile, Buluan Vice-Mayor Esmael Mangudadatu Mangudadatu is expected to testify later Wednesday on his last conversation with his wife, Bai Genalin, on the day of the massacre. Mangudadatu had said that before his wife was killed, she was able to tell him through a mobile phone call that Datu Unsay Andal Ampatuan Jr. was leading the massacre of civilians in Barangay Saniag, Ampatuan town.
During Wednesday’s hearing, a liaison officer of Smart Communications presented a copy of Mangudadatu’s billing statement, proving that Genalin was able to call her husband on the day of the massacre.
P120 Million Cash Discovered in Ampatuan Compound?
by admin, on Thu, Jan 21 2010 | No Comments
Last Wednesday, police and military operatives raid the compound of Datu Unsay Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr.’s mother-in-law in Shariff Aguak and recovered more ammunition for high-powered weapons at the compound. But there are talks that there was something else found in the area but not declared.
Several sources claimed that the operatives who raided the compound discovered, but did not declare, 120 million pesos in cold cash stored in cigarette boxes. The informants said the cash found in the compound of Samera Nor Santiago were loaded into military vehicles from Camp Crame and the intelligence unit of the Armed Forces, together with the local police force, before media and the public were allowed access to the area.
The source added that the operatives divided the P120 million among themselves. Earlier, there had been reports that huge sums of money were also found in the other mansions of the Ampatuan clan raided by the police. Then again, only rifles, machine guns, armored personnel carriers and ammunition were declared.
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