197 people charged with murder over Philippine massacre
Police investigators look at the victims of a massacre in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao province on November 24, 2009.
A former close ally of Philippine President Gloria Arroyo and 196 other people were on Tuesday charged with murder over an election-linked massacre that left 57 people dead, a prosecutor said.
Andal Ampatuan Snr, the patriarch of a Muslim clan and the former governor of Maguindanao province where the massacre occurred last year, was among those charged with murder, according to documents filed to a court in Manila.
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