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Philippine massacre suspect pleads not guilty to murder
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Tue Jan 5, 2010 12:33am EST
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MANILA (Reuters) - The mayor of a small Philippine town, the main suspect in the November massacre of 57 people in the country's troubled south, pleaded not guilty to murder charges on Tuesday.
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Datu Andal Ampatuan Jr, wearing handcuffs and flanked by armed security officials, sat quietly and looked bored as a court employee read 41 murder charges against him at a clubhouse turned into a courtroom inside Manila's main police camp.
State prosecutors are readying 16 more murder cases against Ampatuan Jr. to cover each of the 57 people killed, including 30 journalists, some of whom were found in shallow, hastily dug graves at a hilly area in southern Maguindanao province.
Most of the victims were on their way to an election office to witness the filing of nomination papers for a member of the Ampatuans' rival political clan when about 100 armed men attacked their convoy.
The killings raised fears next May's national elections would be bloody, particularly the contest for provincial posts.
Weeks after the massacre, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo imposed martial law in Maguindanao province to disband the Ampatuan's private army and arrest the clan's patriarch, his brother and three sons, suspected to have had a hand in the killings.
All five are currently under military and police custody on the southern Mindanao island.
A lawyer for Ampatuan Jr sought bail for his client, the son of a powerful political warlord with links to Arroyo, arguing the government has no sufficient proof to hold him.
But Jovencito Zuno, chief state prosecutor, told reporters he was confident the court would throw out the bail petition because the cases against Ampatuan Jr were "air tight."
Dozens of armed police and members of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) stood guard inside the courtroom as lawyers, journalists and families of the massacre victims sat just a few yards away from Ampatuan Jr. The court barred live news coverage of the proceedings.
Anti-riot police and fire trucks were also posted at the police camp's three main gates.
"We hope for a speedy trial and swift justice for the death of my husband," said Myrna Reblando, wife of one of 30 journalists killed in the massacre.
(Reporting by Manny Mogato; Editing by Rosemarie Francisco)
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