File photo of a relative of one of the 57 victims of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre cries as she touches a collage of photos of the victims at the site of the killings in Ampatuan. Hired assassins are ... more 

File photo of a relative of one of the 57 victims of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre cries as she touches a collage of photos of the victims at the site of the killings in Ampatuan. Hired assassins are stalking witnesses to the massacre in which a political warlord allegedly led the slaughter of 57 people, victims' relatives and a rights group said almost two years into a complex trial less