NSTworld Philippines marks massacre anniversary with calls for justice
Tearful family members lit candles and released white balloons as children sang a chorus calling for justice at a southern Philippine town where 58 people, including 32 media workers, were slaughtered and dumped in roadside pits in November 2009.
A man sets up a memorial of photos of the 58 people killed, outside the presidential palace in Manila on November 23, 2019, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Philippines' worst political massacre where 58 people, including 32 media workers, were slaughtered and dumped in roadside pits in November 2009.
The trial ended in July, but the Supreme Court gave the lower court judge until December 20 to go over the evidence on which her verdict on some 100 defendants will be based.
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