(本文是菲律宾马京达瑙惨案当时的报道，事后调查发现该惨案实际死伤比报道估计的还要惨重)

据报道，菲律宾马京达瑙省省长阿木帕图恩大人的公子要参加明年的下任省长“选举”。
阿木帕图恩大人自然是希望儿子在“民主”“选举”的大戏唱过之后能接替自己的职位，
为了防止潜在的对手干扰阿木帕图恩家族的世袭大业，阿木帕图恩公子向潜在对手发出
威胁，要他们不要跳出来参“选”。

但马京达瑙省的布卢安镇镇长伊斯梅尔-托托-曼古达达图不顾省长公子的死亡威胁，
决定参加“选举”。为了到省会谢里夫-阿瓜克市领取参“选”证书，他委托他的妻子、
两位妹妹、律师、媒体人士共约四十余人组成领证团队；同时也希望这样的安排不至于
引起省长阿木帕图恩大人和公子的报复。(参“选”者本人不亲自来领参“选”证，应当
算是十分低调。)

但在11月23日上午10点30分，伊斯梅尔-托托-曼古达达图委托的领取参“选”证的团队
被省长阿木帕图恩大人控制的约100名穿制服的武装人员绑架，据说率领这些武装人员
的正是省长的公子；又有人说这些武装人员是由省会谢里夫-阿瓜克市的市长和当地一名
警察总监率领。

不管是谁在现场统帅这些阿木帕图恩省长大人手下的武装人员，之后的暴行令人发指：

1 菲律宾军队到目前为止找到了浑身布满弹孔的21具尸体，被害人中13名为女子，8名为男子。

2 现在据估计有36人在被绑架后遭杀害，菲律宾军方发言人称死亡人数可能会升至43人。
据有的官员估计，被害的人员大多是被枪击和汽车碾压后而死于非命，有的被害人遭到斩首。

3 参“选”人伊斯梅尔-“托托”-曼古达达图的妻子和他的两位妹妹也没能逃脱武装人员
的魔爪，一同遭绑的还有四名律师和三十余名新闻工作者。他们大多已经遇害。

4 所有被害人头部遭到猛击，女被害人遭到性攻击，她们腰部以下的衣服被脱光。

从这些暴行可以看出阿木帕图恩省长大人的公子已经把明年的省长“选举”看成囊中之物，
绝不容他人染指。

而布卢安镇镇长伊斯梅尔-托托-曼古达达图声称他将继续参“选”，
作为旁观者，我们希望他下次派出的参“选”证领取人员能活着回来。更希望他本人千万
不要亲自去领参“选”证，以免有去无回。

下面是关于本次屠杀事件的部分参考资料：

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)