Philippines massacre: masterminds of country’s worst political attack jailed

Ampatuan family convicted over killing of 58 people in 2009 attack on political rivals

Members of one of the Philippines’ most powerful political clans have been found guilty of a massacre that left 57 people dead in the country’s worst case of election violence.

At a special court in Taguig City, five members of the Ampatuan family, which governed the southern province of Maguindanao for decades, were sentenced to life imprisonment for the killings.

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