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TIMELINE: The year since the November 23 Massacre
Click here to view full screen In a country where people are no longer easily shocked, the event froze many in disbelief when it was first reported. A convoy of 57 people enroute to file a simple certificate of candidacy -- a group that included over 30 journalists but also a few motorists who happened to be stopped at the same checkpoint -- was wiped out. Only pursuing soldiers prevented the victims from being buried with their vehicles in mass graves as part of a conspiracy to make them disappear without a trace. The November 23 Massacre -- also known as the Maguindanao or Ampatuan Massacre -- has become an emblem for a country's culture of impunity, where powerful people think they can literally get away with murdering dozens of innocent people in a single premeditated act. It has been a year since that infamous day. There have been no convictions. A trial continues, hidden from public view by a Supreme Court ruling prohibiting live coverage and cameras inside the courtroom. To help readers trace the history of this case, GMANews.TV presents this chronological grid of many of our reports and news videos about the heinous deed and its aftermath. - Howie Severino, GMANews.TV GMANews.TV Multimedia Team: Wayne Manuel, Paolo Ferrer, Candice Montenegro, Analyn Perez, Einstein Rojas MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL: 
200 years not, but 20-year Ampatuan trial possible It might not take 200 years, but at the rate of two witnesses per month, it could take up to 20 years to hear the testimonies of all 169 witnesses from the prosecution and 320 witnesses from the defense panel indicated in the pre-trial order from the Quezon City Regional Trial Court.
A year after massacre, loved ones a sorority of sorrow Women left behind by victims of the Ampatuan Massacre travel regularly to Manila yearning for justice, while sharing the struggle to go on with their lives. The new government gives them hope, consoling these survivors with the thought that gone is the old administration allied with the Ampatuans. Article with podcasts of the interviews.
Local journalists struggle to stay safe He escaped death last year, but to this day, death continues to haunt local journalist Aquiles Zonio.
'Never forget': Maguindanao massacre reminder in video clips A blindfolded, shirtless man being strangled and beaten to death, a dismembered body being unearthed from a shallow grave, a teary-eyed woman who lost her husband to a mass killing are few of the video images circulated in the media for the Maguindanao massacre anniversary.
Toto Mangudadatu: Trying to rule land of the Ampatuans Maguindanao Governor Esmael "Toto" Mangudadatu knows better than almost anyone that the era of the Ampatuan clan is hardly over in Maguindanao. Last October 16, Mangudadatu sat down for a rare one-on-one interview with GMA News and Public Affairs reporter Rhea Santos. The full video and transcript are available here.
TIMELINE: The year since the November 23 Massacre To help readers trace the history of this case, GMANews.TV presents this chronological grid of many of our reports and news videos about the heinous Maguindanao massacre and its aftermath.
The Ampatuan Massacre: A map and timeline GMANews.TV offers the following interactive map and timeline of the Ampatuan Massacre perpetrated on November 23, 2009 against more than 50 unarmed civilians - 57 at last count - many of them women, 30 of them journalists.
