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9 REBELS RECEIVE ASSISTANCE FROM SOCIAL INTEGRATION PROGRAM

LUCENA CITY – Nine (9) former rebels were given cash assistance and renumeration of surrendered firearms last Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at headquarters of the Southern Luzon Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. The former rebels belong to the NPA’s Gitnang Hilagang Quezon (GHQ) Front. They are now tagged KR (Kasama sa Reporma) and are incorporated to the Social Integration Program of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP).

The cash assistance are coursed through with counterparts from the Quezon Provincial Peace and Order Council. Each of the nine (9) former rebels received P20,000.00 immediate cash assistance. while three (3) of them received cash renumeration from their surrendered firearms. The three (3) rebels who surrendered firearms received a total amount of P128,582.00 pesos. Among the three (3) , one (1) was able to surrender eight (8) improvised anti-personnel mines and five (5) improvised anti-tank mines with a total worth of 22,000.00 pesos. One was able to surrender one (1) cal 5.56mm m16-A1 armalite rifle, 120 pcs ammunition and one Rifle Grenade worth 53,000.00 pesos. The other received 52,000.00 pesos for his surrendered one (1) cal 5.56mm m16a1 rifle and hand fragmentation MK2 grenade.

The occasion was attended by the deputy Commander of the Southern Luzon Command, Commodore Rosauro Arnel Gonzales, local government unit representatives of Quezon and other representatives of various line government agencies.

The 9 KRs from the province of Quezon had undergone Medical and Physical check – up conducted by the Quezon Medical Center, Psycho-Social profiling interview by the DSWD and two-day orientation seminar on the different Socio-Economic interventions that can be exte\nded to them by the concerned line agencies last June 8 and 9, 2009.

The Social Integration Program is a process whereby former rebels and their dependents are provided a set of interventions to facilitate their integration into mainstream society. To be able to achieve this objective, the program is guided by the principle of convergence and cooperation primarily between the different national and local agencies of the government, national and local government units, non-government institutions and organizations and the community as well. Each stakeholder plays a unique role in the integration process. (Frank Sayson)

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