Datu Andal Ampatuan Sr, the patriarch of the Ampatuan warlord clan, is a very close ally of Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Ampatuan’s role in the 2004 Hello Garci operation was substantial. Administration party candidates got ALL the votes of the Maguindanaoans last presidential elections, courtesy of course, by the Ampatuans whom election observers say, intimidated [...]

You ask–why is it that this government allows just one political clan to dominate politics of one province? I am referring to the Ampatuans, who continues to lord it over Maguindanao province in Mindanao. It is a known fact that the Ampatuans are close political allies of Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Datu Andal Ampatuan, the clan’s [...]

A close ally of Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is now the primary suspect and mastermind behind the gruesome massacre of some thirty six (36) civilian sympathizers and mediamen of his political rival in Maguindanao. Datu Andal Ampatuan, Governor of Maguindanao, is being blamed for ordering the killing of the wife and sympathizers of rival candidate Buluan Town Vice Mayor [...]