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Condemning Violence: Philippines

Tulsa World - Wed Nov 25, 3:40 am ET

Protesters hold lighted candles while displaying placards during a rally Tuesday in Manila's Quezon City to condemn election violence in the southern Philippines.

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Murder complaint filed against Hawaii man sought in 2 killings in Philippines
Honolulu Advertiser - Tue Nov 24, 9:04 am ET
MANILA, Philippines — Philippine police searched for an American who escaped after allegedly killing a government official's son in a road-rage shooting — the second homicide case against him, officials said Monday.
Death toll rises in Philippines massacre
CNN - Tue Nov 24, 10:58 pm ET
Bodies lie scattered in a rural field in the southern Philippines, some unearthed from a shallow grave hastily dug by the gunmen who seized the group of men and women just a day earlier.
Philippines officials find more bodies
The Durango Herald - Thu Nov 26, 2:33 am ET
AMPATUAN, Philippines - Officials found 11 more bodies Wednesday at the site of an attack on an election caravan in the south, bringing the death toll in the massacre to 57, and police said they are investigating a member of a powerful clan allied with the president's administration.
Politician charged over Philippines massacre
CNN - Thu Nov 26, 7:37 am ET
Authorities have filed murder charges against Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. in the massacre of 57 unarmed civilians, state-run media reported Thursday.
Philippines Villages Remain Flooded After Cyclones, UN Says
Bloomberg - Wed Nov 25, 11:41 pm ET
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Almost 400,000 people are still living in flooded villages a month after the last of three cyclones blew across the Philippines leaving about 1,000 dead, the United Nations said.
Media Release-KAIROS Partners Murdered in Philippines: A Response to the Massacre
Marketwire - Thu Nov 26, 4:27 pm ET
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Nov. 26, 2009) - Attention: Religion, Foreign, and Human Rights Journalists KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives condemns the murder of 57 people in the Philippines, including two of its human rights partners, and calls on the Canadian and Philippine governments to act swiftly to ensure justice and human rights for all in the Philippines. In a statement ...
EXTRA: At least 27 journalists among dead in Philippine massacre
EARTHtimes.org - Wed Nov 25, 3:11 am ET
Manila - At least 27 Filipino journalists were among those killed in a grisly massacre of more than 50 people in the southern Philippines, a regional police chief said Wednesday. Chief Superintendent Josefino Cataluna said the number of journalists k...
Parts Of Southern Philippines Under State Of Emergency After Massacre
Nasdaq - Tue Nov 24, 1:02 am ET
MANILA (AFP)--President Gloria Arroyo on Tuesday put parts of the troubled southern Philippines under a state of emergency following a massacre of at least 22 people there, her spokesman said.
Philippines charges massacre suspect with murder
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 7:00 am ET
Philippine police filed murder charges on Thursday against the main suspect in the massacre of 57 people in the south of the country this week as authorities moved to dismantle his clan's control over the region.
Susect in Philippines massacre turns self in
The Wenatchee World - Thu Nov 26, 3:14 pm ET
AMPATUAN, Philippines - Authorities say a scion of a powerful clan suspected in the massacre of 57 people in an election caravan in the southern Philippines has turned himself in. The dead from Monday’s massacre include the wife, family and dozens of journalists and supporters of a gubernatorial candidate who wanted to challenge the rival Ampatuan clan, which has ruled the lawless province of ...
24 killed in election massacre in the Philippines
San Jose Mercury News - Mon Nov 23, 9:50 pm ET
MANILA, Philippines — Gunmen ambushed a caravan of political supporters and journalists on their way to file election papers, killing at least 24 people in a massacre considered shocking even for a region notorious for violence between rival clans.
Philippines declares emergency rule after political violence - Summary
EARTHtimes.org - Tue Nov 24, 5:41 am ET
Manila - The Philippines Tuesday declared emergency rule and dispatched additional security forces to a southern province as the death toll in the country's worst-ever election-related violence reached 46. Police investigators dug up 24 bodies in sha...
Philippines massacre draws fear, disgust
CNN - Thu Nov 26, 1:51 am ET
Filipinos are used to violence during the run-up to elections -- they'll often say with a sad shrug, a grimace and resignation that it's "normal." They're only too aware that politics can be a dangerous business in this country, so often mixed with guns, greed and money.
EXTRA: Death toll hits 39 in political violence in Philippines
EARTHtimes.org - Tue Nov 24, 4:11 am ET
Manila - The death toll in election-related violence in the southern Philippines reached 39 Tuesday after police recovered more bodies from a shallow grave, police said. Fifteen bodies were found in the grave in a hilly area in Salman village in Ampa...
Massacre highlights lawlessness in the Philippines - Feature
EARTHtimes.org - Tue Nov 24, 2:41 am ET
Manila - The murder of at least 24 unarmed civilians in the southern Philippines has underscored the worsening state of lawlessness in the country under the government of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The carnage was unmatched in brutality and r...