MANILA: The Philippines’ police force has sacked 21 officers for being “co-conspirators” in the country’s worst massacre six years ago, according to an official statement.
The officers were dismissed for failing to stop the son of a political warlord and his bodyguards shooting 58 people, including 32 journalists, in the conflict-wracked southern province of Maguindanao in November 2009, according to a police statement released yesterday.
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