菲律賓馬京達瑙省省長派遣武裝人員綁架殺戮競選對手團隊的人員

(本文是菲律賓馬京達瑙慘案當時的報道，事後調查發現該慘案實際死傷比報道估計的還要慘重)

據報道，菲律賓馬京達瑙省省長阿木帕圖恩大人的公子要參加明年的下任省長“選舉”。
阿木帕圖恩大人自然是希望兒子在“民主”“選舉”的大戲唱過之後能接替自己的職位，
為了防止潛在的對手幹擾阿木帕圖恩家族的世襲大業，阿木帕圖恩公子向潛在對手發出
威脅，要他們不要跳出來參“選”。

但馬京達瑙省的布盧安鎮鎮長伊斯梅爾-托托-曼古達達圖不顧省長公子的死亡威脅，
決定參加“選舉”。為了到省會謝裏夫-阿瓜克市領取參“選”證書，他委托他的妻子、
兩位妹妹、律師、媒體人士共約四十餘人組成領證團隊；同時也希望這樣的安排不至於
引起省長阿木帕圖恩大人和公子的報複。(參“選”者本人不親自來領參“選”證，應當
算是十分低調。)

但在11月23日上午10點30分，伊斯梅爾-托托-曼古達達圖委托的領取參“選”證的團隊
被省長阿木帕圖恩大人控製的約100名穿製服的武裝人員綁架，據說率領這些武裝人員
的正是省長的公子；又有人說這些武裝人員是由省會謝裏夫-阿瓜克市的市長和當地一名
警察總監率領。

不管是誰在現場統帥這些阿木帕圖恩省長大人手下的武裝人員，之後的暴行令人發指：

1 菲律賓軍隊到目前為止找到了渾身布滿彈孔的21具屍體，被害人中13名為女子，8名為男子。

2 現在據估計有36人在被綁架後遭殺害，菲律賓軍方發言人稱死亡人數可能會升至43人。
據有的官員估計，被害的人員大多是被槍擊和汽車碾壓後而死於非命，有的被害人遭到斬首。

3 參“選”人伊斯梅爾-“托托”-曼古達達圖的妻子和他的兩位妹妹也沒能逃脫武裝人員
的魔爪，一同遭綁的還有四名律師和三十餘名新聞工作者。他們大多已經遇害。

4 所有被害人頭部遭到猛擊，女被害人遭到性攻擊，她們腰部以下的衣服被脫光。

從這些暴行可以看出阿木帕圖恩省長大人的公子已經把明年的省長“選舉”看成囊中之物，
絕不容他人染指。

而布盧安鎮鎮長伊斯梅爾-托托-曼古達達圖聲稱他將繼續參“選”，
作為旁觀者，我們希望他下次派出的參“選”證領取人員能活著回來。更希望他本人千萬
不要親自去領參“選”證，以免有去無回。

下麵是關於本次屠殺事件的部分參考資料：

Political violence: 36 dead

THEY belonged to the rival Mangudadatu clan, but since they were women accompanied by a media delegation, they believed they were safe, protected by the Koranic preion to spare women.

That’s why they were sent to the Maguindanao capital Shariff Aguak by Buluan Vice Mayor Datu Ismail “Toto” Mangudadatu who intends to run for governor against the son of incumbent Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr.

No one could have predicted the ruthlessness that met the group of 40 or so people.

At least 36 people, mostly identified with Toto Mangudadatu and including a dozen media people, were abducted and later killed yesterday by gunmen allegedly led by members of the Ampatuan political clan.

Toto’s wife, Genalyn Tiamzon-Mangudadatu, was among those killed, Toto himself said.

Knowing that it would be suicidal for him to venture into Ampatuan territory, Toto sent his wife and two sisters, believing that fellow Muslims would not dare harm the
women.

For good measure, the women were accompanied by lawyers and media professionals. They were all abducted anyway.

Despite the deaths, Toto said he would not back down “and no one can compel me not to run for governor.”

Toto said his wife called him by mobile phone shortly before she and her entourage were abducted.

“She said ... they were stopped by 100 uniformed armed men ...then her line got cut off,” he said.

The convoy of vans carrying about 40 people was hijacked and army troops later found the bullet-riddled bodies of 13 women and eight men, regional military commander Maj. Gen. Alfredo Cayton said.

Madaser Mangudadato, Toto’s brother and a congressman in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, said some of the victims were beheaded.

According to officials, most of the 36 or so victims were shot and some run over by vehicles.

Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner Jr., spokesman of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), said the abducted victims included Toto’s sisters Bai Farinah and Bai Eden Mangudadatu, the incumbent vice mayor of Mangundadatu town, also in Maguindanao province.

He expects the death toll to reach 43.

Toto said other abducted victims were lawyers Connie Brizuela and Cynthia Oquendo, Rasul Daud and Faridah Sabdulah, and some 30 journalists. He said the women were sexually assaulted.

“What they did was heinous. The heads of the victims were bashed and the females stripped from the waist down,” he said in the dialect.

Despite the massacre, Toto said he will continue with his plans for 2010.

Brawner said they were abducted by some 100 men allegedly led by Mayor Datu Unsay Ampatuan and one Police Senior Inspector Dicay of the Shariff Aguak police force.

He said in a local television interview that 21 bodies—13 female and eight male— have so far been recovered from the Maguindanao massacre.

Associated Press and the Agence France Press both reported 21 fatalities.

The victims were abducted at about 10:30 a.m. while on their way to the Maguindanao Comelec office in Shariff Aguak to file a certificate of candidacy (COC) in behalf of Toto Shariff Aguak, the provincial capital, is widely known as Ampatuan turf.

Sources in Cotabato City fault the Comelec for transferring the regional office there this year from Cotabato City where it would have been easier for rivals to file their COCs.

Before the reports of the massacre, Brawner said the leader of the militiamen who carried out the kidnapping was one of Ampatuan’s sons.

Mangudadatu’s brother, Khdadafeh, also said Ampatuan had warned Mangudadatu’s not to register for the elections.

“His son, Andal Ampatuan Jr., is supposed to run for governor and he had already made an earlier announcement that we would be killed if (Toto) filed the candidacy for governor,” Khdadafeh said. (AP)/(AFP)