Reaction to the Philippines Massacre

Philippine authorities, under intense public pressure to make arrests in the country's worst election massacre, said on Wednesday they are investigating a member of a powerful clan thought to be allied with the government, along with four police commanders.

Officials recovered 11 more bodies on Wednesday - six in a large pit buried alongside three vehicles and five in a mass grave - bringing the death toll in Monday's attack on an election caravan to 57, including 18 journalists.

The bodies were found sprawled a few miles off the main highway in southern Maguindanao province on a remote hilltop, and in three nearby mass graves.

The vehicles, a sedan and two vans were crushed and buried. The dead included the wife and two sisters of candidate Ismael Mangudadatu and 18 Filipino journalists who were accompanying the caravan to file his election papers.
It is the highest number of reporters killed in a single attack anywhere in the world, according to media groups. This is a list of journalists who have been killed in the Philippines since 1996. It numbers around 100 names and is symbolic of the link that exists between death and politics here.
In response to Mondays killings the military announced it will disarm two government-armed civilian militia companies, of about 200 men, in southern Maguindanao province, which is ruled by the powerful Ampatuan clan.

The militia are meant to act as an auxiliary force to the military and police in fighting rebels and criminals but often serve as a private security force of local warlords.
He said the military also has revoked all its permits to carry firearms in Maguindanao and Sultan Kudarat, the two provinces now under a state of emergency.

No suspects have been formally named in the killings. Arroyo vowed justice for the victims and declared a national day of mourning.

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[candie8301972]

There were muslims that died in that massacre. Not all muslims are bad. It is their prophet's teachings and the calipate who wrote the koran and suria law that is to be blamed for all the problems in the world.

[hellokitty9376]

wag nyo naman husgahan ang LAHAT ng mga muslim

[maf14h]

dapat sa mga hayp na yan eh kaponin

[askuIIs]

ang dapat gawin sa mga PUTANG INANG MUSLIM NA YAN AY

1. patayin lahat ng muslim

2.sunugin at ilibing ng buhay ang mga muslim

3.ipako sa krus ang mga muslim at balatan ng buhay

4.dapat katayin sila na parang baboy

PUTANG INA NYONG mga muslim kayo mga duwag naman kayo. wala kyong karapatang mabuhay

KAPUTAPUTAHAN KAYO NG MGA INA NYONG PUTA

[sniper1mig]

justice for the victims