Maguindanao isn't usually a place tourists would want to visit in the Philippines, and for good reason. It is home to bandits, rebel insurgency groups and warring political families, and in 2009, fifty-seven people, including 31 journalists, were brutally killed by the Ampatuan clan as a result of one man's attempt to wrest power from them. Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story.

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