The Philippine Online Chronicles

1. Ampatuan trial delay prompts protests
(Breaking News/Breaking Stories)

... by defense lawyers to postpone the proceedings. The trial, which was supposed to begin on Wednesday, has been reset for September 8 and 15. The lawyers of [[Maguindanao Massacre]] primary suspect [[Andal ...

2. Ampatuan Sr asks court to defer pre-trial
(Breaking News/Breaking Stories)

Andal Ampatuan Sr., patriarch of the Maguindanao-based Ampatuan clan, has asked the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 221 to postpone the pre-trial of the Maguindanao Massacre case. Several members ...

3. Shame old story
(Pinoy LGBT/Opinions)

... ka nahihiya maging Pilipino, dahil ba pumangit ang imahe natin sa ibang bansa? Dahil ba sa foreigner ang naging biktima kaya mas nanakahiya? Nung Maguindanao massacre ba nasabi mo din yan sa sarili mo, ...

4. The Luneta tragedy: 'Those who died were Chinese but he killed us, Filipinos, too'
(Buhay Pinoy/Features)

... for the valuable lesson. Amidst all that idiocy, the tragedy in Luneta deeply impacted on the ordinary Pinoy, perhaps much more than the Maguindanao massacre did last year.  As one of my blog buddies ...

5. Arroyo dropped as Ampatuan case witness
(Breaking News/Breaking Stories)

Former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has been dropped from the list of possible witnesses to testify in the ongoing investigation of the November 2009 Maguindanao Massacre. The idea of Arroyo testifying ...

6. Maguindanao Massacre suspect arrested after gunfight
(Breaking News/Breaking Stories)

A suspect in the gruesome Maguindanao Massacre was apprehended by police in Maguindanao last Sunday. Edris Kasan, who has a bounty amounting to a quarter of a million pesos on his head, engaged several ...

7. Ampatuan maintains ‘not guilty’ stance
(Breaking News/Breaking Stories)

Maguindanao Massacre primary suspect former Datu Unsay vice mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. has pleaded "not guilty" to the 57th murder charge filed against him. Ampatuan, together with other members of his family, ...

8. Agra: What bribery report?
(Breaking News/Maguindanao)

Alberto Agra has denied knowledge of an attempt to bribe a Maguindanao Massacre witness while he was still Justice Secretary. [[National Bureau of Investigation]] (NBI) Counter-Terrorism Unit chief Ricardo ...

9. Maguindanao police chief to be replaced
(Breaking News/Maguindanao)

Maguindanao police director Senior Superintendent Alex Lineses was sacked because of Governor Esmael Mangudadatu’s complaints of inaction on the Ampatuan massacre case, said a report by the Inquirer. According ...

10. NBI official confirms attempt to bribe Massacre witness
(Breaking News/Breaking Stories)

National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Counter Terrorism Unit chief Ricardo A. Diaz confirmed that attempts had been made to bribe witnesses set to testify against the Ampatuan family in the Maguindanao ...

11. De Lima links Ampatuan reps to bribe attempt
(Breaking News/Maguindanao)

“Emissaries” of the Ampatuan clan allegedly tried to bribe some witnesses to the Maguindanao massacre by as much as P5 million in exchange for the witnesses' recantation of their testimonies in the multiple ...

12. Aquino and the prospects of peace in Mindanao
(Politi-Ko/Politiko Features)

... people of Mindanao refugees in their own hometowns. Data gathered by the Maguindanao Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office and the Mindanao Response Network showed that 174,370 persons remain ...

13. P28 million reward for Massacre suspects
(Breaking News/Maguindanao)

The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) is offering a total of P28 million for information leading to the arrest of 112 suspects thought to be involved in the Maguindanao Massacre. The ...

14. Lawyer of massacre witness hurt in ambush
(Breaking News/Maguindanao)

Weeks after the death of a Maguindanao massacre witness, assailants attempted to kill the lawyer of another witness. Richard Petisme, lawyer of the Sangki family from Ampatuan town, was reported to ...

15. Private armies 'holding RP down' - report
(Breaking News/Local)

... to investigate the [[Maguindanao massacre]] had already collected a six-month-long study showing that the massacre was not an isolated event. Militiamen, who earn only P2,700 a month, are also sometimes ...

16. Lady Justice Leila De Lima
(Politi-Ko/Politiko Features)

... of human rights protection. She said the [[Maguindanao Massacre]] is a “foreshadow of the other horrors and brutalities we will continue to face if we do not find meaningful and lasting solutions to ...

17. Roque: Ampatuans connected to killing of massacre witness (Updated)
(Breaking News/Maguindanao)

Lawyer Harry Roque, who represents the kin of the victims of the November 2009 Maguindanao Massacre, has said that the Ampatuan family might be connected to the killing of Suwaid Upham, who came forward ...

18. Threatened journalists may carry firearms – police
(Breaking News/Media)

... will be handling all cases involving journalists. Early this year, the debate if whether journalists should carry guns was brought up in lieu of the Maguindanao massacre where 31 of the 57 victims were ...

19. State of witness protection program
(Politi-Ko/Politiko Features)

The killing of Maguindanao massacre witness Suwaib Upham or “Jesse” on June 14 in Parang, Maguindanao buries deeper the Department of Justice (DOJ) under acting Secretary Alberto Agra into the Ampatuan ...

20. EDITORIAL: The pursuit of justice
(Breaking News/Politics)

... at least 863 deaths as of 2007. At the tailend of Arroyo's term, 57 people were allegedly murdered by a ruling political clan in Maguindanao. The latest victims of extrajudicial killings were three provincial ...