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Police officers carry a massacre victim's body towards a truck along a hillside in Datu Ampatuan, Maguindanao province, yesterday. AP

Photo taken July 2008 shows President Arroyo with ARMM Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan (center) and his father, Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr., at a Cabinet meeting in Siongco, Cotabato City.

Photo shows flowers offered by journalism students during a rally condemning the Maguindanao massacre at the foot of the Chino Roces Bridge in Manila yesterday. JONJON VICENCIO
Members of Migrante stage a protest in front of the Supreme Court to demand the immediate issuance of a temporary restraining order on the decision of the Commission on Elections to delist the party-list group from the 2010 elections. EDD GUMBAN

Members of the National Press Club and the Alyansa ng Pilipinong Mamamahayag stage a rally to denounce the Maguindanao massacre at Camp Aguinaldo and Camp Crame yesterday. Boy Santos
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State of emergency in Maguindanao

 By Paolo Romero (The Philippine Star) Updated Nov 25, 2009 12:00 AM

The military launched air and ground operations yesterday as President Arroyo placed the provinces of Maguindanao and Sultan Kudarat and Cotabato City under a state of emergency in the wake of the gruesome massacre that claimed the lives of at least 46 people.
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