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Maguindanao massacre witness dismembered, says lawyer 06/02/2012

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Maguindanao massacre witness dismembered, says lawyer

06/02/2012
A man who testified in court on the country’s worst political massacre was found dead “probably chain-sawed to pieces” in a killing meant to silence other witnesses, an official yesterday said.

Esmail Amil Enog went missing in March after he spoke in court last year about the alleged role of a powerful political clan in the November 2009 murders of 57 persons, prosecutor Nena Santos told Agence France Presse.

“The body was put in a sack and it had been chopped up, probably chain-sawed to pieces,” Santos said, declining to give further details.... MORE

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