MANILA, Philippines — Eleven years after the gruesome Maguindanao massacre, Rep. Esmael Mangudadatu said no one can tell families of the victims of the crime to simply move on even after the conviction of Datu Andal Ampatuan Jr., his siblings, and several others over the crime.
Mangudadatu, whose wife was among those who died in the 2009 massacre, said that the November 2009 incident in Maguindanao is “incredulously impossible to forget.”
“Lahat tayong nandito ay may dala-dala pa ring lungkot, pait o maging galit. And for all the atrocity, malignancy, and evil that has happened that day, I still question how the perpetrators managed to hatch and carry out the deed as vile as the …
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