Bloody pre-Valentine

The body of Tamano Kamindan Mamalapat, an alleged hit man of the Ampatuan clan is taken out of Gaisano Citimall (former JS Gaisano) in Davao City. Mamalapat was shot at around 7 p.m., Thursday by one of the police escorts of the Ampatuans’ political rival Esmael "Toto"Mangudadatu who is running for governor of Maguindanao Province.

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Relief halts for Maguindanao IDPs after the Ampatuan carnage

By GINGGING AVELLANOSA-VALLE Relief assistance for people displaced by the fighting between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Maguindanao has come to a halt after the massacre that killed 58 people, 32 of them journalists, in the town of Ampatuan on November 23 last year.

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