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| Southeast Asia |
| Victim recorded massacre |
| 2009-11-29 |
| [Straits Times] ONE of 57 victims of an election-linked massacre in the southern Philippines made a secret audio recording of the horrifying attack blamed on a local politician, the suspect's bereaved rival said on Saturday. 'Police told me they have recovered the recording device,' said Mr Esmael Mangudadatu, who lost his wife, two sisters and an aunt in Monday's attack in Maguindanao province. He said he asked one of his sisters to hide the tape recorder in her sock when his wife and female relatives went to a local election office, accompanied by at least 27 journalists, to nominate him for provincial governor in next year's elections. 'I asked her to turn it on as soon as they left,' Mangudadatu, vice-mayor of Buluan town told DZMM radio here. 'It has a capacity of 288 hours or 12 days,' he said. He said he had not joined the convoy because of a perceived threat to his life. There was no independent confirmation of the presence of the recording. Police investigators have said they cannot reveal the details of some of the evidence they have collected. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 And a good time is about to be had by all... except the murderer and his powerful daddy, of course. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-11-29 20:24 |