Police cover bodies with banana leaves along a hillside grave, in Ampatuan municipality, Maguindanao province, southern Philippines, Tuesday Nov. 24, 2009. The Philippine president placed two southern provinces under emergency rule Tuesday as security forces unearthed more bodies, pushing the death toll to over 40, in some of the deadliest election violence in the nation's history. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Quezon City Regional Trial Court Judge Jocelyn Solis Reyes finds Zaldy Ampatuan, Datu Andal Ampatuan, Jr., Anwar Ampatuan Sr., and others guilty for the murder of 57 people in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre. They were sentenced to reclusion perpetua, or a maximum of 40 years without benefit of parole.
