Monday, June 11, 2007

Poll Fraud Witness Is Murdered In Southern Philippines

MAGUINDANAO (Mindanao Examiner / 10 Jun) – Unidentified armed men shot dead a local government school teacher who allegedly exposed the massive cheating in last month’s national and local polls, police said Sunday.

Police said Musa Dimasidsing, the province’s school district supervisor, was killed late Saturday inside a school in his hometown in North Cotabato.

Dimasidsing, who served as election officer, was one of those that said polls in the province were dirty and marred with cheating and fraud.

Maguindanao, one of four other provinces under the Muslim autonomous region, is where President Gloria Arroyo’s senatorial candidates won by a landslide.

Police said it is still investigating the attack.

The killing is believed connected to Dimasidsing’s exposé to prevent him from testifying about the cheating and fraud allegedly perpetrated by candidates. (Mindanao Examiner)

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