A source who requested anonymity, said that one of the negotiating points discussed between the Ampatuans and the palace, led by Presidential peace adviser Jesus Dureza is for the younger Andal Ampatuan to be taken into custody but not be thrown to jail during the investigation stage. The negotiations happened inside the Ampatuan compound. Dureza [...]

The Philippine military has taken over the Provincial capitol of Maguindanao ahead of the expected arrest and detention of Datu Unday mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr., the mastermind behind the gruesome and the most barbaric election-related violence in Philippine history. Ampatuan Jr is reportedly holed inside one of the houses in the Ampatuan compound in Sharif Aguak, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]