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Families of the victims of the Ampatuan Massacre express how they feel, one year after the brutal massacre of 58 people -- 32 of them journalists and media workers, in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao. Director: JIM LIBIRAN DOP: NAP JAMIR Script: VERONICA UY Sound: JING GARCIA Executive Producer: ALWYN ALBURO Production Managers: VERONICA UY / TJ BESA Producers: NOVEMBER 23 MOVEMENT (N23M) / NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS OF THE PHILIPPINES (NUJP) Production: RSVP FILM PRODUCTION & RENTALS Post-Production: UNDERGROUND LOGIC TALENTS: 1. CATHY NUNEZ -- mother of UNTV Reporter Victor Nunez 2. MYRNA REBLANDO -- wife of Manila Bulletin Reporter Bong Reblando 3. MARRIETTA TIAMZON -- daughter of Daniel Tiamzon, UNTV Media Worker 4. GRACE MORALES -- Sister OF MARITES CABLITAS (Wife of Rossel Morales) of News Focus

From the Philippine Daily Inquirer . A Quezon City court has sentenced to life imprisonment a laborer accused of stealing P1.2 million from a man and then killing him and his housemaid after a 6-year-old girl positively identified him as the man whom she saw strangling one of the victims. In a 27-page decision promulgated recently, Judge Bayani Vargas of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 219 found Jaime Elpidang guilty of robbery with homicide. Vargas also ordered Elpidang to pay the heirs of Samuel Allan Sy and his housemaid, Vilma Ciruela, a total of P320,000 and P120,000 in damages, respectively. The judge said he based his decision on the testimony of the young girl who told the court that she saw Elpidang strangle Ciruela inside Sy’s house in May 2004. The girl said she witnessed the killing from her hiding place. In his ruling, Vargas downplayed Elpidang’s defense that he was not the one who killed Sy and Ciruela as he pointed out that a child’s testimony is sometimes s...