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...behind the massacre, who was taken into custody on Thursday, is a member of one of Mindanao's leading Muslim political clans: the Ampatuans. They are close allies of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's administration in Manila and rule Maguindanao, a hardscrabble province in an autonomous area for Muslims. Andal Ampatuan Jr., a Maguindanao mayor in his 40s, was expected to be charged with murder, according to local reports, quoting justice authorities. Ampatuan denies involvement: "The reason I came out is to prove that I am not hiding and that I am not guilty," he told local reporters. (See pictures...
...exploited. Erikson ascribes various forms of adolescent belief to the moral and premoral stages of childhood development and the search for a premoral paradise unblemished by sin. He also gives a fascinating explanation of violent radical behavior. Such amoral development, he says, is related to the second, or andal-urethral, stage of human development which takes place in the second of third year. The amoral position, represented by members of motorcycle gangs and other tadieals who believe in the correctness of violence, is an assertion of the sense of autonomy, transcending the sense of shame, or doubt. The free...
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