Maguindanao massacre issue far from over: Inquirer

Relatives of the 58 people slain in the country's worst political massacre, visit the site of the massacre where markers represented each of the victims, in Ampatuan, Maguindanao province on the southern island of Mindanao.- AFP

MANILA (ANN): In an editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer says that although Andal Ampatuan Jr's guilty verdict for the slaughter of 58 men and women stirred hope, the length of time it took to try the case reflects the dismaying state of Manila's judicial system.

"We will be their witness," we wrote in a front-page editorial on Nov 29,2009, six days after 58 lives were snuffed out by the Ampatuans' private army on a lonely hilltop in Maguindanao.