EXCLUSIVE: Maguindanao Massacre Suspect Andal Ampatuan Sr. falls into Coma

Do you believe in Karma? Former Maguindanao provincial governor Andal Ampatuan Sr., on trial for the November 2009 Maguindanao Massacre, is in a coma after putting up with a coronary attack on Monday.

"As of midnight yesterday evening when I left NKTI [National Kidney and Transplant Institute] that he was in comatose condition, " Ampatuan's lawyer, Atty. Salvador Panelo told GMA News On line.

Panelo added there's been no change up to now in his condition.

"Since there is absolutely no message nor calls from his kids from enough time I left until this hour this means there's been no change in the medical status of Ampatuan, Sr., " Panelo said in a text to GMA News On line.

The patriarch of the Ampatuan political clan who's on trial for the Philippines' worst political massacre is dying of liver cancer, his lawyer said earlier in the day this month.


Ampatuan Sr., who's confined at a suburban Manila hospital, was told by his physician that he had three to half a year to call home, Panelo had told the Agence France-Press international news agency.

The former governor have been in the hospital for nearly 8 weeks since complaining of abdominal pains while held in his maximum security jail in the administrative centre.

The murder trial of the elder Ampatuan and seven other clan members has moved excruciatingly slowly within the last five years.

The Ampatuans allegedly orchestrated the slaughter of 58 people within their area in November 2009, so that they can stop a rival clan's election challenge.

The victims, who included 32 journalists, a few of whom were shot within their genitals, were buried in a hilltop grave utilizing an excavator.

The brazenness and brutality of the crime shocked the planet, prompting President Benigno Aquino, who took office this year, to work for an answer of the court proceedings before that he steps down from office next year.

But given the notoriously slow Philippine justice system, you can find fears the trial will still maybe not be completed before his term ends.

The Ampatuan patriarch ruled Maguindanao as governor for ten years with an exclusive army tolerated at that time president Gloria Arroyo who used his forces as a buffer against Muslim insurgents.

One of is own sons and co-accused, Sajid Ampatuan, premiered on bail in-may. There are a lot more than 100 the others on trial for murder on the killings.

However many suspects, including Ampatuan clan members, remain most importantly while human rights groups and victims' family members say witnesses are increasingly being killed or intimidated to attempt to sabotage the case.

The Philippines is definitely blighted by way of a "culture of impunity" where the powerful believe they are able to commit crimes like murder and escape unpunished.

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