Gunmen shot dead a mayoral candidate in a southern Philippine province where 57 people were massacred in election-related violence last year, a policeman said Thursday.

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BULUAN, Maguindanao, Philippines – A ranking police official implicated in the massacre of 57 people in the province in November last year escaped from detention at the Sultan Kudarat provincial jail late Tuesday.

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MANILA, Philippines-A senior police commander of Maguindanao tried to cover up the abduction and brutal slay of 57 people in the province last November 23, a top military official told the court Friday.

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The indictments were announced on the same day campaigning for the Philippines election began.

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Ten Clan Members Implicated in Philippines Massacre Are Running for Office DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Only two of the 12 members of a prominent political clan, the Ampatuans, implicated in the November 23, 2009 massacre of at least 58 persons are not running for any posts in this year’s elections.

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MANILA, Philippines — Philippine prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against the head of a powerful clan and 195 others in the biggest and deadliest murder case since the country's World War II wa…

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Residents show their identification cards to a soldier at a checkpoint in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao in southern Philippines Dec.

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A politician accused of massacring dozens of people in the southern Philippines denied more murders Wednesday as prosecutors charged him with the deaths of 16 other people.

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A politician accused of massacring dozens of people in the southern Philippines denied more murders Wednesday as prosecutors charged him with the deaths of 16 other people.

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A politician accused of massacring dozens of people in the southern Philippines denied more murders Wednesday as prosecutors charged him with the deaths of 16 other people.

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After the euphoria over the victory of boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao, and the 2009 CNN Hero of the Year award of Efren Penaflorida, Filipinos across the globe suddenly felt ’shell-shocked’ by the horrific and senseless massacre that occurred last Monday the 23rd of November…

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