Two rebel returnees received on Wednesday, individual checks
worthP50,000 each from the office of the Presidential Assistance for
Rehabilitation and Recovery channelledthrough the Department of Interior and
Local Government Region 6 (DILG6) and the Iloilo Provincial Social Welfare
Development Office (PSWDO) to help them start a livelihood and be able to
provide basic necessities for their respective families.
Michael Caro, 34, was in his early 20's when he joined the
armed struggle but as everybody knows, rebels are constantly on the move as
they try to elude pursuing police and soldiers; and one day, he felt he could
not take it anymore and finally in 2009, he turned himself in to live a life of
a normal, law-abiding citizen.
Marosendo Chiva, 41, has six mouths to feed and has always
longed to be with his family; and so,three years ago he bid his comrades
goodbye despite their pleas to stay. He claims he is much happier now, and
wishes that someday peace would prevail in the entire country.
Interestingly, both are very grateful that they did lose
their lives while fighting government troops, and incentives dangled by the
government have surely given them fresh hopes to try a new beginning.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=739588
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