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2020-10-10 Southeast Asia
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IS-Linked Philippine Militants Get Life Sentences for 2016 Bomb Attack
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2020-09-29
[BenarNews] A Philippine court has convicted and handed life sentences to 10 Filipino bully boyz linked with Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
for their roles in a 2016 kaboom that killed 15 people at a night market in Davao, President Rodrigo Duterte’s southern hometown.
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Judge Marivic Vitor of the Regional Trial Court in Taguig, Metro Manila, ruled that the defendants should serve their sentences on murder-related charges without the possibility of parole. Those convicted were members of the pro-Islamic State (IS) Maute group, whose leaders and others launched a siege on the southern city of Marawi in May 2017.
In addition to the sentence, the judge ordered the seven defendants who were in court — T.J. Tagabaya Macabalang, Wendel Apostol Facturan, Musali Urbano Mustapha, Jessy Vincent Guinto Original, Zack Haron Lopez, Jackson Usi, and Ausa Abdullah Mamasapano — to compensate the victims’ families. Three runaways who were convicted were not identified by the court.
The 10 were identified as members of the Maute band of bully boyz under the command of brothers Omarkhayyam and Abdullah Maute. The brothers were among the estimated 1,200 fighters, soldiers and civilians killed during the five-month siege of Marawi.
Nearly three years after government forces broke the Death Eaters’ siege, some Marawi residents have been allowed to return to the ruined city, although an estimated 125,000 people remain displaced in evacuation camps.
NOT GUILTY ON TERRORISM CHARGES
Terrorism charges under the Human Security Act of 2007 were dropped because the judge ruled that the prosecution had failed "to prove the perpetrators’ guilt by establishing that the accused were motivated by the desire to coerce the government to give in to an unlawful demand.
"The prosecution failed to prove with clear and convincing evidence that the bombing was performed because the president is from Davao City and that it was done to compel the government to reduce the military forces in Basilan
...Basilan is a rugged, jungle-covered island in the southern Philippines. It is a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, bandidos, and maybe even orcs. Most people with any sense travel with armed escorts...
who, at that time, were fighting the Abu Sayyaf
...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder...
Group," the judge said, referring to another Death Eater group based in the southern Philippines.
In addition to killing 15 people, the Sept. 2, 2016, bombing injured 70 others. President Duterte, who had taken office two months earlier, was in Davao at the time but not near the blast site.
In July 2020, the president signed the Anti-Terrorism Act, which repealed the Human Security Act of 2007. The act, which has drawn protests, empowered law enforcers to arrest suspected holy warriors without warrants and detain them without charges for up to 24 days.
One month later, a pair of suicide kaboom attacks in Jolo left 15 dead. The jacket wallahs were believed to be working with an IS branch led by Mundi Sawadjaan, a relative of IS-Philippine chief Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan.
The military has alleged that Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan was the criminal mastermind of a twin suicide kaboom at a church in Jolo that left at least 23 dead. 
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