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.
