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E-mailA digital video disc (DVD) movie featuring videos of the 57 victims of the grisly Maguindanao massacre, a day after they were brutally murdered, now sells like hotcakes in various parts of the Metro, in Davao and even in the province where the crime happened.
The four-hour documentary film, dubbed as “Maguindanao Massacre 11/23/09,” showed clips taken from the massacre site a few hours after the incident. It featured the “blood-soaked and bullet-disfigured” bodies of the victims. The musical score was the “mechanical groaning of a backhoe.”
According to a review, it was apparent that the video was taken by an amateur. It can not be ascertained if the footage on the DVD was part of the documentation conducted by the team that conducted retrieval operations on the bodies.
A vendor from Koronadal City said the material was “taken” by members of the Scene of the Crime Operatives division of the Philippine National Police.
Copies were sold at P120 and were considered “hot items.” DVDs were also sold at the Parang public market in Maguindanao which is close to the crime site in Ampatuan.
Meanwhile, members of the Optical Media Board headed by chairman Ronnie Ricketts raided stalls in Quiapo, Manila which were found to be selling the massacre DVDs. Also present during the raid were members of the National Press Club as well as its president, Jimmy Antiporda.
The raid came after “Heirs of the 11/23 Maguindanao Heroes,” an organization comprised of the families of the massacre victims, appealed to the OMB to stop the production and distribution of the discs.
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