by Alliance-Philippines (AJLPP)
Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009 at 5:50 PM
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The AJLPP NEWS sources learned today that The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Suara Bangsamoro,scoffed at the claim of Datu Unsay Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. that MILF rebels were behind the Nov. 23 mass murder in Maguindanao.
MILF vice chair for political affairs Ghadzali Jaafar said Ampatuan’s claim was “absurd” and that “even a small kid would not believe it.” MILF spokesperson Eid Kabalu said it was “a mediocre attempt to divert the issue.”
“Who would believe that?” Kabalu said.
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AJLPP Update
November 27, 2008
MILF, Suarabangsamoro Scoffs at Ampatuan Claims that the MILF did it.
Los Angeles-- The AJLPP NEWS sources learned today that The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Suara Bangsamoro,scoffed at the claim of Datu Unsay Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. that MILF rebels were behind the Nov. 23 mass murder in Maguindanao.
MILF vice chair for political affairs Ghadzali Jaafar said Ampatuan’s claim was “absurd” and that “even a small kid would not believe it.” MILF spokesperson Eid Kabalu said it was “a mediocre attempt to divert the issue.”
“Who would believe that?” Kabalu said.
Suara Bangsamoro national president Amirah Ali Lidasan said that even with Ampatuan’s much publicized yielding to authorities, the case should be tightly monitored to make sure there would be no whitewash.
“Wala na kaming tiwala sa pamahalaang Arroyo (We have lost all trust in the Arroyo administration),” Lidasan said.
Ampatuan, the prime suspect in the killings, had told reporters in Manila that MILF rebels under Commander Ameril Ombra Kato waylaid the Mangudadatu convoy in Ampatuan town and executed those who had joined it.
Buluan Mayor Esmael Mangudadatu, whose wife and sisters were among those killed, dismissed Ampatuan’s claim, saying witnesses had pointed to the latter as the mastermind.
He said his wife, Genalyn, called him before the killings started and told him that Ampatuan had slapped her.
Genalyn Mangudadatu and the couple’s supporters were to file the mayor’s certificate of candidacy for the Maguindanao gubernatorial race against Ampatuan.
Evidence against Ampatuan
More than 62 bodies have been recovered so far. There were 27 journalist among those killed, 22 women who were also raped and mutilated and 15 bystanders who were just passing at the time of the massacre who were also killed.
The AJLPP strongly condemned the massacre in the strongest term possible.
The massacre was the worst in the recent times. There were also massacres during the time of Marcos like the Carmen massacre in Cotabato in 1971 where 200 Muslims were killed.
But the worst killings was still the Ampatuan Maguinandao massacre were characterized by rapes, mulitilations and senseless killings.
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