GMA hit with massacre lawsuit
11/23/2011Relatives of 57 people killed in the Philippines’ worst political massacre plan to sue then President Arroyo for arming and supporting the alleged murderers, their lawyer said yesterday.
The civil suit seeking P15 million ($345,000) in damages will force Arroyo to fight another tough legal battle, after police charged her last week with conspiring to rig the 2007 senatorial elections.
The lawyer for the victims’ relatives, Harry Roque, said the lawsuit would be filed at a Manila court on Tuesday afternoon, deliberately timed just ahead of Wednesday’s two-year anniversary of the massacre..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20111123hed4.html
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kung maagang kinasuhan at hindi sinadyang delayed ni abs ang pagsampa ng kaso kay arrobo (para may konstitusyonal na butas), pati ang civil case na ito maagang naisampa sana.
"“She enabled the Ampatuans to do what they did by arming them, by legitimising their private army, by giving them aid and by giving them political support,” Roque told AFP."
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