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Ramos vows to provide aid to ex-Muslim rebels
MANILA. Nov 12: President Fidel Ramos met an Irish priest Wednesday who was recently freed by former Muslim guerillas and promised the government will provide promised assistance to the ex-rebels, reports AP
Former Moro National Liberation Front, rebels seized Father Desmond Hartford Oct 27 in southern Lano del Norte province, reportedly to pressure the government to deliver benefits promised under an amnesty programme.
Hartford was freed unharmed on Saturday after Roman Catholic leaders said they would help the former rebels obtain the benefits.
Ramos shook Hartford's hands and gave him three books — an autobiography, a book on Christian-Muslim relations and the government's economic policy in the southern Philippines.
"Have a good vacation but come back to us. We need you," Ramos told Hartford, who plans to vacation in Dublin, Ireland, where he was bom.
Hartford thanked the Philippine leader for helping secure his release, according to Father Desmond Quinn, who was at the 45-minute meeting.
“My immediate plan is to take a break, to take a bit of holiday." Hartford told re-
porters after the meeting
Shortly alter being lieed, Hartford thanked Muslim-, and Christians who helped in his release and reminded his cap tors ft was against the true spirit of Islam" to resort to abduction to get what they want.
He said the government's failure to deliver promises to the former rebels was an injustice that causes unrest among many Muslims and Christians in Mindanao, the traditional homeland of the country's Muslim minority.
Hartford said Ramos assured him former Muslim guerrillas will get the benefits due them under the amnesty programme.
Hartford. 54, who belongs to the Missionary Society of St. Coiurnban In the Philippines, has worked for nearly 30 years to foster harmony between Christians and Muslims in southern Mindanao, one of the country's poorest regions.
The MNLF fought a quartercentury guerrilla war in the south but abandoned the separatist Insurrection when it signed a peace accord with the government last year.
The government has promised Jobs and livelihood assistance to thousands of former MNLF and other Muslim guerrillas under the amnesty programme, but many have complained that the promises remain unfulfilled.