newsinfo.inquirer.net Witness: We have followed orders Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 03:42:00 27/11/2009 Filed under: Maguindanao Massacre, electoral violence, political assassinations, Inquirer Politics, Crime and Law and Justice, murder Mean ( Editor's note: This story appeared Thursday on the organization's website, Qatar-based Al-Jazeera Arab News) A man who says he witnessed a massacre in the southern Philippines Monday, told Al Jazeera as he was ordered to members of the deada woman's political rival clans and children, including, to ensure that no evidence was left behind. The witness, who is just like a boy, said he was among the more than 100 armed men stopped a convoy of journalists and political activists before them in a remote mountainous area where they were then killed. Speaking of Al-Jazeeras corresponding Marga Ortigas, Boy said that orders had come directly from Andal Ampatuan Jr., a local mayor and a member of a politicalpowerful clan with close ties to the Philippine president. Datu Andal said so himself, told us: Everyone in the clan Mangudadatu women or children should be killed, we ask, why do not we just followed orders. At least 57 people were killed in the massacre, regarded as the worst ever politically related killings in the Philippines. Boy feared for his life, now in hiding for fear of his life in danger, she said that all women in the group had been raped before being killed. Their bodies werethen dumped in ...
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