{"id":12261,"date":"2019-12-19T14:11:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T05:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/19\/philippines-massacre-masterminds-of-countrys-worst-political-attack-jailed"},"modified":"2019-12-19T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T08:30:00","slug":"philippines-massacre-masterminds-of-countrys-worst-political-attack-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12261","title":{"rendered":"Philippines massacre: masterminds of country&#8217;s worst political attack jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ampatuan family convicted over killing of 58 people in 2009 attack on political rivals <\/p>\n<p>Members of one of the Philippines\u2019 most powerful political clans have been found guilty of a massacre that left 57 people dead in the country\u2019s worst case of election violence.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/19\/philippines-massacre-masterminds-of-countrys-worst-political-attack-jailed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ampatuan family convicted over killing of 58 people in 2009 attack on political rivals Members of one of the Philippines\u2019 most powerful political clans have been found guilty of a massacre that left 57 people dead in the country\u2019s worst case of electio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,55,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-philippines","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12298,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12261\/revisions\/12298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}