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Andal Ampatuan Jr before a hearing earlier this month. His father has now been charged over the massacre in the Philippines. Photograph: Jay Directo/AFP/Getty Images
Prosecutors in the Philippines today filed murder charges against the head of a powerful clan and 195 others, including his three sons, for the massacre of 57 people in November.
The indictment said Andal Ampatuan Sr and the others were part of a conspiracy to ambush and kill members of the rival Mangudadatu family, who were shot by 100 gunmen in Maguindanao province, in the southern Philippines.
Among those killed in the country's worst election violence were 30 journalists who were going to cover the filing of candidacy papers of Esmael Mangudadatu, who is running for governor, in the May elections.