{"id":220617,"date":"2019-06-27T19:24:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T23:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=220617"},"modified":"2019-06-27T19:27:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T23:27:36","slug":"palace-hopes-maguindanao-massacre-verdict-to-be-out-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/27\/palace-hopes-maguindanao-massacre-verdict-to-be-out-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace hopes Maguindanao massacre verdict to be out soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_220618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220618\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/andaeg3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220618\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/andaeg3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/andaeg3.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/andaeg3-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Maguindanao massacre site in Barangay Salman, Ampatuan, Maguindanao (PCOO photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday expressed hope that the court would soon reach a decision to convict the principal suspect in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre of 58 persons, including 32 media workers, within the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone always wants decision from the courts to be sooner than one would wish,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Di ba ang reklamo nga dito sa\u2019tin palaging pinapatagal ang mga kaso<\/em>\u00a0(Remember, people always complain about our cases taking too long to reach a verdict),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said he believed the 2009 Maguindanao massacre case would be resolved within the year.<\/p>\n<p>Principal accused Datu Unsay town mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. among others are now awaiting the decision on the murder case filed against them in connection with the 2009 Maguindanao massacre.<\/p>\n<p>On November 23, 2009, a total of 58 people were massacred while on their way to file the certificate of candidacy of Esmael Mangudadatu in the town of Ampatuan, Maguindanao. Mangudadatu is a political rival of the Ampatuan family.<\/p>\n<p>It has also been described as the single deadliest episode for journalists in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday expressed hope that the court would soon reach a decision to convict the principal suspect in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":220618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,54365,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-instagram","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220619,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220617\/revisions\/220619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}