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  1. Andal Ampatuan Jr., right, a local mayor in Maguindanao province, eats behind a detention cell at the National Bureau of Investigation in Manila November 26, 2009. Philippine police filed murder charges against the main suspect in the massacre of 57 people in the south of the country this week as authorities moved to dismantle his clan's control over the region. Ampatuan Jr, a local mayor in Maguindanao province, came face to face with Esmael Mangudadatu, husband of one of the women murdered, who filed multiple murder complaints before state prosecutors in southern General Santos City. (Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
  2. Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation escort Andal Ampatuan Jr., center, after he surrendered in Ampatuan in southern Philippines, upon his arrival at the Villamor air base in Pasay city, metro Manila. (Romeo Ranoco / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
  3. Filipino Muslims carry the remains of a victim of a pre-elections crime during burial rites in Buluan town of Maguindanao province. (Rolex Dela Pena / EPA) Back to slideshow navigation
  4. Filipino protesters hold placards during a protest demonstration in Manila, Philippines. Civil society groups expressed outrage over the massacre of 57 people. (Alanah M. Torralba / EPA) Back to slideshow navigation
  5. Police and army personnel cover their noses as they view and take photos of recovered bodies along a hillside grave in Ampatuan municipality, Maguindanao province, southern Philippines, on Tuesday, Nov. 24.

    President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo placed two southern provinces under a state of emergency, giving security forces free hand to pursue gunmen who killed at least 46 people in one of the country's worst election massacres. Dozens of gunmen abducted a group of journalists, supporters and relatives of a gubernatorial candidate as they traveled through Amputuan on Monday.

    Editor's warning: there are scenes of death and violence in this report. (Aaron Favila / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
  6. Relatives wait as police recover victims' bodies along a hillside grave in Ampatuan municipality, Maguindanao province. (Aaron Favila / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
  7. Police officers look on as a backhoe clears an area where bodies were dumped along a hillside in Ampatuan, Maguindanao province. (Aaron Favila / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
  8. A police officer uses banana leaves to cover bodies that they recovered from a hillside grave in Ampatuan, Maguindanao province. (Aaron Favila / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
  9. A policeman investigates the massacre. Political rivals are suspected of being behind the kidnap, mutilation, rape and murder of the victims. (Jeoffrey Maitem / Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
  10. A woman is led away from the body of her husband, a local reporter who was among the victims of the massacre. (Erik De Castro / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
  11. A police investigator examines victims at the scene of the massacre. (Erik De Castro / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
  12. Friends and relatives grieve at the scene of the tragedy Monday in Ampatuan. (Jeoffrey Maitem / Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
  13. Photographers clench fists as they offer candles for the victims of election-related violence in Maguindanao province, during a protest outside the Philippine National headquarters in Manila condemning the killings. (Cheryl Ravelo / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
  14. Protesters hold lighted candles while displaying placards during a rally Tuesday at Manila's Quezon city to condemn the massacre. (Bullit Marquez / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
  15. Wreckage of a vehicle believed to be used in transporting victims of a pre-election crime is dug up along a hillside in Ampatuan, Maguindanao province in the southern Philippines, on Wednesday, Nov. 25. Philippine security forces dug up three vehicles and six more bodies. (Rolex Dela Pena / EPA) Back to slideshow navigation
  16. Soldiers inspect a vehicle at a military checkpoint in Ampatuan, Maguindanao province, southern Philippines. (Aaron Favila / AP) Back to slideshow navigation
  17. Families, friends, students and sympathizers light candles for those who died during a politically motivated massacre in nearby Ampatuan town in the southern city of Koronadal, Philippines. The Ampatuan clan are being blamed for the kidnap, mutilation, rape and murder of the victims. (Jeoffrey Maitem / Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation
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