The first successful, mass relocation of people from their traditional domiciles into a brave, new world used a carrot (figuratively) and, literally, the barrel of a gun. Men of a certain age, (OK, it is old people like this typist), who were raised in the areas of the Sosyalistas and the Huks, have clear memories of this program — the Homestead Program. What were done under the program, which relocated thousands of families from Central Luzon into the then remote areas of Mindanao, were these:
First, “troublemakers,” or those identified by the Philippine Constabulary as former Sosyalistas and the Huks were compiled in a master list.
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