Andal Sr. asks court to arraign him

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The patriarch of the Ampatuan clan has asked the Quezon City court trying him and 195 others to arraign him in the next hearing.

In an 18 May 2011 motion, Andal Ampatuan Sr. requested through his counsel that he be arraigned on 25 May 2011. The hearings on the Ampatuan Multiple Murder case have been postponed for a week to give way to a court stenographers’ convention.

Andal Sr. is the head of the Ampatuan family, some of whose members are the primary suspects in the 23 November 2009 killing of 57 persons in Maguindanao province. Only 57 of the 196 charged have been arraigned since the trial began in January 2010. More than a hundred remain free, including some sons and grandsons of Andal Sr.

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