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Ampatuan victims open to negotiated settlement due to delay in trial

Published by Ellen on June 24, 2013

By Mylah Reyes-Roque, VERA Files

On the 43rd month of the massacre, 14 of the families' victims entered into a settlement with the suspected murderers.
On the 43rd month of the massacre, 14 of the families’ victims entered into a settlement with the suspected murderers.
Tired of the slow pace of justice, relatives of 14 of the 58 fatalities in November 2009 Ampatuan massacre had signed an agreement with an “emissary” of the accused to negotiate the settlement of the murder case for P50 million.

But no settlement has been reached to date: The “emissary,” identified as Jun Chan, was killed in an ambush en route to his farm in Barangay Sulit in General Santos City a month after the agreement was signed.

The agreement with Chan was reached the third week of February, and Chan was killed on March 25. But the proposed settlement surfaced only recently when an heir of one of the victims decided to provide the details to highlight how precarious their situation is—financially and security-wise—as victims living in Mindanao.

Lawyer Harry Roque confirmed in radio interviews that four of the 14 heirs who signed the agreement with Chan are his clients.

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339 Comments

  1. bayong bayong

    very practical, wala ka namang aasahang hustisya dito magpabayad ka na nga lang. pilipinas nagkalat dito ang mga swapang sa pera lalo na ang karamihan sa media kaya nga ganito ang sitwasyon natin, kung matino ang karamihan sa media hindi makakaporma ang mga pulitiko at taong gobyerno.

    June 25, 2013
  2. arvin arvin

    Mabagal kasi ang pag usad ng kaso. Bakit di na lang pakainin ng lason ang mga nakakulong…

    June 25, 2013
  3. arvin arvin

    Parang may takot ang administrasyon ni Pnoy na panghimasukan talaga ang mga Ampatuan.

    June 25, 2013
  4. chi chi

    Bakit nga ba napakatagal ang trial? Sa yaman ng Ampaws talaga mabibili pati korte!

    Natutuunan ng pansin ng Palasyo ang kaso ni Arroyo pero ito hindi, wtf!

    June 25, 2013

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