Posted by on December 19, 2019 12:11 am
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Ampatuan family members convicted over killing of 58 people in 2009 attack on political rivals

The masterminds of the Philippines’ worst political massacre have been found guilty of murder, a decade after the slaughter in which gunmen killed 58 people in the conflict-plagued south of the country.

Leaders of the Ampatuan family, a powerful political dynasty, had been accused of orchestrating the killings in a bid to quash an election challenge from a rival clan.

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