By Mindanews on January 17 2011 12:09 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/16 January) – A member of the Ampatuan clan has appealed to the public to spare clan members who are not involved in the November 23, 2009 massacre… »
By Mindanews on January 16 2011 9:44 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 January) – Relatives of some of the victims of the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan Massacre filed on Friday charges of plunder, graft and corruption and forfeiture against… »
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on November 30 2010 10:06 am
AMPATUAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews/30 November) – Bishop Colin Bagaforo of the Archdiocese of Cotabato led some 300 bikers and motorcycle riders Monday, in a visit to the site of the November… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on November 27 2010 10:12 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 November) — Whatever happened to the promises made by government officials immediately after the massacre of 58 persons in Ampatuan, Maguindanao on November 23, 2009, that government… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on November 27 2010 10:03 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 November) – The provincial government of Maguindanao has recommended the lifting of the year-long state of emergency over Maguindanao but it was decided in a meeting last… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on November 27 2010 9:51 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 November) — The neighbors have gotten used to the silence. The armed men are gone and ice drop peddlers now pass freely on the street where the… »
By Germelina Lacorte on November 27 2010 1:15 am
MANILA (MindaNews/26 November)—Failure to resolve the Ampatuan Massacre and deliver justice to the victims will worsen the culture of impunity that has come to characterize the killings of journalists in… »
By Contributor on November 26 2010 2:09 pm
Before daybreak, without warning, government forces as planned took over and occupied the ARMM facilities in Cotabato City including other buildings and premises in Maguindanao province. Armed elements loyal to the Ampatuans were taken by surprise and gave up their firearms without resistance.
By Mindanews on November 25 2010 3:30 pm
I visited a funeral parlor in Marbel. Some bodies were not identified yet. I talked with the relatives, many parlor-hopping, visiting every funeral parlor and looking at mangled bodies hoping to identify missing loved ones. I motored back to the 601st Army brigade headquarters. We were frantic for some sworn statements so the legal process could start. It was the
By Germelina Lacorte on November 25 2010 3:01 pm
On the Deadly Trail: the Ampatuan Massacre Last of three parts Part 3: Retrieving the core values of journalism by Germelina A. Lacorte/MindaNews DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 November) — In a… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on November 25 2010 9:00 am
MASSACRE SITE, Ampatuan, Maguindanao (MindaNews/24 November) — Government is looking for witnesses who could shed light on where the 58th victim, Reynaldo “Bebot” Momay, a photographer of Midland Courier, could… »
By Walter I. Balane on November 24 2010 8:02 pm
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/24 November) — Journalists in Bukidnon yesterday marked the first anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre with an exhortation to learn from the lessons of a carnage that left… »
By Germelina Lacorte on November 24 2010 7:00 am
In Davao City, a kongko refers to someone who asks favor, oftentimes cash, from sources after an interview. The term, coined in the 1990s, refers to someone who poses as a media person to extort cash from politicians or businessmen.
By Jesus G. Dureza on November 24 2010 6:59 am
2nd of a 4-part series Nov 24 (Tuesday) At the break of dawn, Sec Bert Gonzales and I took the earliest flight to Gen Santos City. The medical checkup can… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on November 23 2010 4:52 pm
MASSACRE SITE, Ampatuan, Maguindanao (MindaNews/23 November) — Justice Secretary Leila de Lima assured residents of Maguindanao thatthey have government’s commitment “to do all that we can” to convince the Supreme… »
By Germelina Lacorte on November 23 2010 1:11 am
Part I: Wrong Time, Wrong Place 1st of three parts By Germelina A. Lacorte / MindaNews DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 Nov) — On the evening of November 22, 2009, Santos Gatchalian… »
By Jesus G. Dureza on November 23 2010 1:10 am
1st of 4 parts (Note: Right after the Maguindanao incident, Dureza, then presidential adviser for Mindanao, wrote a personal account as “crisis manager” which was published and carried by media.… »
By Germelina Lacorte on November 23 2010 1:07 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 Nov) – A year after the Ampatuan massacre that killed 58 people, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) hit President Aquino for failing to… »
By Mindanews on November 23 2010 1:04 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/22 Nov) – Members of the Bukidnon news media are commemorating the first anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre with a mass on November 23 starting at 4 a.m.… »
By Mindanews on November 22 2010 1:59 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 November) – If you’re online — whether in the Philippines or abroad — can you spare a few seconds to demand justice for the victims of the… »
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on November 21 2010 11:41 am
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/21 November) – A homemade bomb exploded in Shariff Aguak town, Maguindanao at 6:30 Sunday morning, injuring two persons two days before the first anniversary of the November… »
By Mindanews on November 17 2010 5:37 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 November) – More calls for live coverage of the hearings in the multiple murder cases filed on behalf of the victims of the November 23, 2009 massacre… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on November 13 2010 6:15 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/12 November) – Police operatives in Sarangani Province arrested another former militiaman from Datu Unsay town in Maguindanao who was allegedly among the 189 persons identified by… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on November 7 2010 9:29 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/07 November) — Authorities nabbed in Cotabato City another suspect in the Maguindanao massacre, bringing to 79 the number of those charged in the mass murder arrested since… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on November 5 2010 12:03 am
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/4 Nov) — Relatives of former policemen accused of participating in the Ampatuan Massacre last year are appealing to the government, through the Truth Commission, to conduct a… »
By Mindanews on November 4 2010 4:04 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/04 November) — Senior State Prosecutor Leo Dacera, one of the lead prosecutors in the cases filed against the Ampatuans following the November 23, 2009 massacre, succumbed to… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on November 1 2010 10:02 am
ISULAN, Sultan Kudarat (MindaNews/30 October) – ”Saan kami pupunta? Sinong tutulong sa amin?” (Where will we go? Who will help us?) Reynafe Momay-Castillo has been asking these questions since November… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on October 21 2010 8:37 am
BULUAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews/20 October) – He would have delivered his State of the Province Address (SOPA) in early August. In fact, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (provincial legislature) had been waiting for… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on October 20 2010 8:38 am
BULUAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews/19 October) — Governor Esmael Mangudadatu may refer to his office as “Satellite Office” but several Maguindanao residents believe the governor has transferred the Capitol to his hometown… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on October 19 2010 9:20 am
BULUAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews/18 October) – Maguindanao Governor Esmael “Toto” Gaguil Mangudadatu lives in a two-storey house here that relatives refer to as the “White House.” The “White House” pales in… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on October 10 2010 11:23 pm
BULUAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews/10 October) – Governor Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu is tired of the “negatibong imahe” (negative image) of Maguindanao. The country’s third poorest province, he said in his State of… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on October 8 2010 7:22 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/08 October) – Police and Army personnel in Sarangani Province captured Thursday a fugitive aide of Ampatuan Massacre principal suspect Andal Ampatuan Jr. who was among the… »
By H. Marcos C. Mordeno on September 17 2010 11:31 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 September) – A self-confessed close friend of former secretary Jesus Dureza who tried to defend the latter from accusations he received P10 million for the dismissal of… »
By Mindanews on September 16 2010 12:06 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 Sept) — Former press secretary Jesus Dureza today laughed off accusations he received millions of pesos for his alleged role in the dismissal of the rebellion case… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on September 9 2010 3:45 pm
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 Sept) – Former Presidential Adviser for Mindanao Jesus Dureza said he will give his “full testimony” in court “if asked to testify” but denied he made arrangements… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on September 4 2010 1:15 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/03 September) — Police operatives in Sarangani province captured Thursday a fugitive policeman who was among the 189 suspects earlier ordered by arrested by a Quezon City… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on September 1 2010 11:33 pm
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/01 August) – Maguindanao is now “going to normalcy,” police and military officials say, even as it remains under a state of emergency nine months after the massacre… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on August 27 2010 12:15 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/26 August) – A private prosecutor for the families of several victims in the November 2009 Ampatuan massacre has questioned the release of several police patrol vehicles… »
By Malu Cadelina-Manar on August 24 2010 10:52 pm
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/24 August) — Fifty-eight seedlings of the hardwood Lawaan species were planted on Monday at the foot of Mount Apo, the country’s highest peak, particularly at the watershed… »
By Contributor on August 18 2010 12:03 am
Manila, August 17, 2010—The opening trial date for 17 men accused of murder and other crimes in the killing of 57 people—32 of them journalists or media workers—in southern Philippines… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on August 11 2010 3:08 pm
SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao (MindaNews/11 August) – Five weeks into the new administration, two provincial capitols await occupants, as the new governor holds office “temporarily” in his hometown in Buluan town… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on August 9 2010 3:32 pm
DARAPANAN, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao (MindaNews/09 August) – No entry. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Central Committee has just passed a resolution denying sanctuary to “all members of the Ampatuan… »
By Keith Bacongco on July 30 2010 12:02 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/29 July) – The Armed Forces of the Philippines is now recommending the lifting of the state of emergency in Maguindanao, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Ricardo David… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on July 26 2010 12:04 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/25 July) – Justice Secretary Leila de Lima described it as “a strategy of delay and pattern of harassment.” Eight months after the November 23, 2009 massacre… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on July 24 2010 8:04 pm
TACURONG CITY (MindaNews/24 July) — “Never again.” Justice Secretary Leila de Lima assured families of the victims in the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan Massacre that justice would prevail and that no such massacre can happen again. In a meeting with the families of the 58 victims at the Genalin Forest Garden Resort here Saturday to commemorate the 8th month since the massacre, De Lima, who had met with the victims’ families months ago while serving as chair of the Commission on Human Rights, said, “the clarion call/battlecry is – NEVER AGAIN. Never again should our people be traumatized by horrific, bestial events such as what occurred in the hilly area in Barangay Salman, municipality of Ampatuan eight months ago. Never again should the powerful, corrupt and evil be allowed to elude or evade accountability.”
By Froilan Gallardo on July 24 2010 8:03 pm
TACURONG CITY (MindaNews/24 July) – Wanted: better printers for “Wanted” posters. None of the “Wanted Maguindanao Massacre suspsects” posters or tarpaulins showing the photographs of a substantial number out of… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on July 23 2010 11:25 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/23 July) – Eight months after the massacre of at least 58 persons, 32 of them from the media, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on July 8 2010 12:11 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/07 July) – Jail officials here have sought for the immediate transfer of a detained former police official of Maguindanao to another jail facility in nearby Korondal… »
By Ferdinandh B. Cabrera on July 3 2010 8:23 am
The lawyer of Ampatuan Mayor Zacaria Sangki sustained injuries when armed men fired at his vehicle as it was cruising along Sinsuat Avenue here around 9:30 a.m. The lawyer, Richard Piteste, was with his driver and two soldier-escorts when two armed men fired at his Toyota Revo.
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on July 2 2010 11:58 am
BULUAN, Maguindanao (MindaNews/02 July) – Maguindanao Governor Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu will convene his Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) next week to discuss the security situation and recommend the lifting… »
