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A court in the Philippines finds 28 people, including former Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. and his brother, former Governor Zaldy Ampatuan, guilty of murder for their roles in the Maguindanao massacre, and sentences them to life imprisonment (40 years).
2019-12-19

Alexander Lubigan, Vice Mayor of Trece Martires, Philippines, is assassinated in an ambush.
2018-07-7

A new set of kidnappings and a jail break plague Sulu province in the southern region of Mindanao in the Philippines.
2017-07-17

The Philippines' current crackdown on controlled substances passes a death toll of 500.
2016-07-21

Human rights activists and families of the victims decry the lack of justice six years after the murder of around 58 people, including journalists and politicians, in Maguindanao, Mindanao. They criticize the regime of Philippines President Benigno Aquino III for the lack of convictions in the trial.
2015-11-23

At least 16 people are killed and 13 injured in the Philippines in a terrorist attack by Islamic group Abu Sayyaf.
2014-07-28

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits near the central Philippines off the coast of Negros Island causing at least 13 deaths and 29 people missing with houses buried in a landslide in Guihulngan.
2012-02-6

More than a dozen suspects are indicted in the Philippines in connection with last year's Maguindanao massacre.
2010-04-21

Andal Ampatuan Jr., former ally of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and 196 other people are charged with murder in the Philippines, in connection with the Maguindanao massacre in November 2009.
2010-02-9

Andal Ampatuan Jr., charged with 41 counts of murder in the Maguindanao massacre in November, pleads not guilty at the beginning of his trial in the Philippines.
2010-01-5