In 2009, 57 people were killed when a convoy heading to register a guvernørkandidat was attacked.
A philippine court has sentenced a number of persons guilty of being behind the worst political massacre in the country’s history.
This writes the news agency Reuters.
57 people in 2009 were killed in the attack, which is believed to be the brainchild of the influential Ampatuan family in order to put political rivals out of the game. The verdict has been long awaited.
Judge Jocelyn Solis found a total of 29 prime suspect guilty of having helped to plan the massacre.
The 29 hovedbagmænd got respectively to life imprisonment and 40 years in prison without parole, writes the news agency dpa.
The convicted persons include, among others, the former mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. and his two brothers.
in Addition, 15 additional persons declared to be complicit in the attack and sentenced to at least six years in prison.
the Attack took according to Reuters, since a convoy with members of a rival clan of the Ampatuan family were on their way to register a candidate for a guvernørvalg.
It evolved into a true carnage, which was allegedly carried out by Ampatuan family’s private army.
Among the dead were the wife and other family members to the rival candidate, as well as 32 journalists and other media workers.
They were, according to the Reuters executed close to a road and buried with their vehicles in a large hole, which was excavated by an excavator.
a total Of 101 persons were on trial, writes Reuters. Several were acquitted on grounds of lack of evidence. This applied to several members of the Ampatuan family.
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