{"id":44464,"date":"2015-03-10T14:27:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T06:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=44464"},"modified":"2015-03-10T14:27:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T06:27:36","slug":"mangudadatu-pledges-to-pursue-case-vs-ampatuans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/10\/mangudadatu-pledges-to-pursue-case-vs-ampatuans\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangudadatu pledges to pursue case vs Ampatuans"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21182\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/media-killing-maguindanao-massacre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21182\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/media-killing-maguindanao-massacre-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Carlos H. Conde \/ Twitter\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/media-killing-maguindanao-massacre-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/media-killing-maguindanao-massacre-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/media-killing-maguindanao-massacre.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Carlos H. Conde \/ Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Despite the recent release of Sajid Islam Ampatuan,\u00a0Maguindanao Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu said he will not stop seeking justice for all the 58 victims of the so-called Maguindanao massacre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will run after him in court,\u201d Mangudadatu said in an interview for a radio station in Cotabato City.<\/p>\n<p>Sajid, is the son of Andal Sr., and is one of the 197 persons charged in connection with the killing of 32 journalists and some of Mangudadatu&#8217;s kin and supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Mangudadatu, however admitted that it might take a long and arduous journey to have the Ampatuans convicted as they still have a weak evidence that will support their claims.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the witnesses, including Akmad Ampatuan, a close relative of Andal Sr. are still set to give their testimonies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur witnesses against him have yet to testify. They are claiming that he has a big role in the massacre,\u201d Mangudadatu said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the release of one of the alleged suspects in the killing, Mangudadatu remains hopeful that he will get the much needed justice several years after the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe still believed that our justice system is fair. The hold departure order is a proof,\u201d Mangudadatu said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Despite the recent release of Sajid Islam Ampatuan,\u00a0Maguindanao Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu said he will not stop seeking justice &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","category-uncategorized","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44464","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}