Zaldy ampatuan biography

Zaldy Uy Ampatuan (* 22. August1967) ist ein philippinischer Politiker. Er war der Gouverneur der Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) von 2005 bis 2009.

Er ist einer der Söhne des Politikers Andal Ampatuan senior und ehemaliger Vorsitzender der Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats für die Region ARMM. Er wurde Ende 2009 abgesetzt, als sein Bruder, Andal Ampatuan junior, für das Massaker in Maguindanao verantwortlich gemacht wurde.^[1] Als einer der Hauptverdächtigen wurde er verhaftet und saß in Untersuchungshaft^[2]; im April 2010 wurde die Klage gegen ihn jedoch fallen gelassen und er zusammen mit seinem Onkel Akmad Ampatuan von der Liste der Verdächtigen gestrichen.

Einzelnachweise

1. ↑Carlos H. Conde, Norimitsu Onishi: Suspect in Philippine Election Killings Surrenders, The New York Times, 25. November 2009. Abgerufen im 26. November 2009 
2. ↑Archivlink (Memento vom 28. November 2009 im Internet Archive) Inquirer.net: Massacre witness surfaces tags Ampatuan
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   Philippines: Full justice still denied 14 years on from Ampatuan journalist massacre

   On November 23, 2009, 58 people, including 32 journalists, were brutally massacred while travelling in a political convoy on the southern island of Mindanao. The victims were shot and buried in mass graves after their convoy was ambushed while travelling to the town of Shariff Aguak to register the gubernatorial candidacy documents for Buluan town vice mayor Esmail ‘Toto’ Mangudadatu.

   Despite sustained international and national pressure and countless campaigns, the families of the murdered civilians still await full justice from a protracted, legal process and a failure of investigators to locate all the accused. In the years since, several key prosecution witnesses have been murdered, some of the accused have died, and 83 of more than 200 suspects still remain at large.

   A breakthrough came in December 2019 when a Quezon City Regional Trial Court convicted Datu Andal Ampatuan Jr, his brothers Andal Ampatuan Jr and Zaldy Ampatuan, and 24 other principal suspects guilty beyond reasonable dou

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   Case Summary and Outcome

   In December 2019, the Regional Trial Court, National Capital Judicial Region Branch 221, Quezon City of the Philippines, convicted Andal Ampatuan Jr., his brother Zaldy Ampatuan and twenty-six other accomplices, including senior police officers, for the mass murder of 58 persons, including 32 journalists. This incident is also known as the Maguindanao massacre. They were sentenced to a penalty of imprisonment of ‘Reclusion Perpetua without Parole’ i.e. jail-time upto 40 years without parole. The principal accused were also directed to pay damages to the heirs of the victims. The 32 journalists killed were part of the convoy of 58 people, who were on their way to file the certificate of candidacy on behalf of the opposition candidate running against the politician, Datu Andal Ampatuan, Jr “Unsay” (of the powerful Ampatuan clan) for the governorship of Maguindanao. These journalists were reporting on the event. The Court heldthat the killings qualified as murder, since it satisfied the first and fifth provisions of Article 248 of the Revis