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Gov't task force brings 37.4K former rebels, violent extremists back to society

Published Apr 25, 2023 07:49 am
A government task force helped reintegrate 37,413 former rebels (FRs) and former violent extremists (FVEs) back to mainstream society since 2016, it was bared on Monday, April 24. (Department of National Defense [DND] Undersecretary Angelito De Leon (left), chairperson of the Task Force Balikatan Loob [TFBL], speaks while DND Spokesperson Arsenio Andolong listens to him during the meeting of the TFBL at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City on April 24, 2023. Photo courtesy of DND) The Task Force Balik Loob (TFBL) said that out of the number, a total of 10,637 of them were presented with “immediate, livelihood, and reintegration benefits” as well as “firearms remuneration” through the national government’s Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (E-CLIP) and Amnesty Program. “Alternative solutions must be employed to resolve issues and concerns to sustain the assistance for the FRs that are packaged under the E-CLIP through a working-group level,” said Department of National Defense (DND) Undersecretary Angelito M. De Leon, chairperson of the TFBL, when he convened the member-agencies of the task force during its first quarter meeting at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City on Monday. The meeting coincided with the TFBL's fifth anniversary. Those who were given the assistance only represent nearly one-third of the total number of FRs and FVEs who resurfaced since 2016. To date, the immediate assistance granted to the FRs has amounted to P147.33 million, the TFBL said.  The FRs and FVEs have also surrendered 6,148 firearms which translated to a remuneration of P151,079,811.49. Meanwhile, livelihood assistance provided by TFBL partner agencies to FRs and FVEs already reached P322.85 million while the reintegration program bestowed to FRs and FVEs amounted to P164,563,200. The TFBL was created by virtue of Administrative Order No. 10 in 2018 as a central coordinating body to supervise the government's reintegration efforts for members of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), New People’s Army (NPA), National Democratic Front (NDF) and their immediate family members. The TFBL is composed of representatives from the DND, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU), Office of the President (OP), National Housing Authority (NHA), as well as other partner government agencies.

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