MANILA - An election-related massacre in the southern Philippines represents the latest blow to the country's faltering democracy and President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's enduring inability to enforce the rule of law at the provincial level.
Latest reports say 39 people were killed on Monday in the central Mindanao province of Maguindanao, reportedly by henchmen of a political warlord, after a group of 44 journalists, civilians, supporters and relatives of a local village chief were waylaid by some 100 heavily armed men. Some of the victims were reportedly mutilated and beheaded.
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