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Every decommissioned MILF combatant will receive P1-million package- Minister Sinarimbo
Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao– A package worth P100,000 in cold cash,
housing and social services worth P950,000 awaits every Moro combatant
set to be decommissioned, according to lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo,
spokesperson of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
(BARMM).The first tranche of decommissioning is slated September 7 that will be attended by Pres. Rodrigo Duterte.
In its online report posted on August 27, 2019, Mindanews, a leading media organization in Mindanao quoted Sinarimbo saying that the non-cash package includes “social protection that includes health benefits, scholarships and other social services, including the housing for the family of combatants.”
Sinarimbo told reporters in a press briefing Tuesday that, “Overall our goal is that combatants will not only get cash assistance but for them to have a transition to a civilian life from being a rebel, and become a productive member of the community.”
According to him, the women and young combatants of the MILF will be the first in line in the processing and profiling as the decommissioning process started this week, which will pave the way for the combatants to lead normal lives.
Dickson Hermoso, BARMM Minister on Transportation and Communication confirmed that the top priorities are the vulnerable sectors of the MILF.
It is expected that a total of 1,060 combatants will be decommissioned by then, and around 920 firearms will be turned over to a third party group, which is the International Decommissioning Body (IDB), said the report by Mindanews.
The IDB will store the firearms in an agreed area.
Crew-served weapons like machine guns and rapid propelled-grenades and small arms or rifles will be the first to be demobilized.
Hermoso said that the political and legislative aspects of the peace agreement have already been given to the MILF in the form of the autonomous region.
The decommissioning for the 40,000 MILF combatants will be in three tranches.
In the first tranche, 30% of the forces and weapons of the MILF would be decommissioned when the Bangsamoro law is ratified, as stated in the Annex on Normalization of the Comprehensive
Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), the peace agreement between government and the MILF signed in March 2014.(Source: Mindanews)
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