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                    [Title] => Suspects in town hall burning still scot-free
                    [Summary] => SOUTH UPI, Maguindanao — It has been a year now since native partisans set on fire the municipal hall here in protest of a court ruling that unseated the town mayor for electoral fraud, but most of the arson suspects and their alleged mastermind are still scot-free.

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SOUTH UPI, Maguindanao - The defiant followers of the ousted mayor here threatened yesterday to "skin alive" Interior and Local Government Secretary Alfredo Lim and Philippine National Police head Panfilo Lacson should they intervene and install a new mayor.

The partisans of ex-Mayor Jovito Martin, unfazed by the arson case they are facing for setting the local town hall on fire, rejected anew during a rally here a Regional Trial Court ruling that Datu Israel Sinsuat, and not Martin, won as mayor in the May 1998 elections.

Martin, who had been in hiding since the burning of [DatePublished] => 2000-04-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 87163 [Title] => Armed backers of ousted mayor gird for hostilities [Summary] =>

SOUTH UPI, Maguindanao - This town's ousted mayor continues to defy orders from higher authorities to peacefully yield his post and dismantle the barricade that about 1,000 of his supporters, mostly tribal folk, have put up around the municipal building they set on fire last Wednesday.

Tension remains high as supporters of the unseated mayor, Jovito Martin, armed with rifles and machetes, converge on critical areas in this hinterland town.

Martin's followers are apparently bracing for hostilities if the Department of the Interior and Local Government in the Autonomous Region [DatePublished] => 2000-03-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 87104 [Title] => Supporters of ousted mayor burn town hall [Summary] =>

COTABATO CITY - Supporters of a municipal mayor in Maguindanao burned down the town hall after a court ruled that he had lost the last election and should vacate his post immediately, authorities said.

The municipal hall of South Upi, along with the police station, was set on fire by followers of ousted mayor Jovito Martin who marched to the building with rifles, machetes and bows and arrows in hand, said Maj. Gen. Gregorio Camiling, commander of the 6th Infantry Division. [DatePublished] => 2000-03-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

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                    [Title] => Suspects in town hall burning still scot-free
                    [Summary] => SOUTH UPI, Maguindanao — It has been a year now since native partisans set on fire the municipal hall here in protest of a court ruling that unseated the town mayor for electoral fraud, but most of the arson suspects and their alleged mastermind are still scot-free.

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SOUTH UPI, Maguindanao - The defiant followers of the ousted mayor here threatened yesterday to "skin alive" Interior and Local Government Secretary Alfredo Lim and Philippine National Police head Panfilo Lacson should they intervene and install a new mayor.

The partisans of ex-Mayor Jovito Martin, unfazed by the arson case they are facing for setting the local town hall on fire, rejected anew during a rally here a Regional Trial Court ruling that Datu Israel Sinsuat, and not Martin, won as mayor in the May 1998 elections.

Martin, who had been in hiding since the burning of [DatePublished] => 2000-04-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 87163 [Title] => Armed backers of ousted mayor gird for hostilities [Summary] =>

SOUTH UPI, Maguindanao - This town's ousted mayor continues to defy orders from higher authorities to peacefully yield his post and dismantle the barricade that about 1,000 of his supporters, mostly tribal folk, have put up around the municipal building they set on fire last Wednesday.

Tension remains high as supporters of the unseated mayor, Jovito Martin, armed with rifles and machetes, converge on critical areas in this hinterland town.

Martin's followers are apparently bracing for hostilities if the Department of the Interior and Local Government in the Autonomous Region [DatePublished] => 2000-03-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 87104 [Title] => Supporters of ousted mayor burn town hall [Summary] =>

COTABATO CITY - Supporters of a municipal mayor in Maguindanao burned down the town hall after a court ruled that he had lost the last election and should vacate his post immediately, authorities said.

The municipal hall of South Upi, along with the police station, was set on fire by followers of ousted mayor Jovito Martin who marched to the building with rifles, machetes and bows and arrows in hand, said Maj. Gen. Gregorio Camiling, commander of the 6th Infantry Division. [DatePublished] => 2000-03-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

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