I remember reading once in a newspaper back in 1931 or 1932 (idk, I was 11 that time) that President Manuel L Quezon gave amnesty to farmers-turned-armed-forces with the launch of his Agrarian reform program. That was amazing, and that may be the last most reformative agrarian reform we had, because not only did he solve the armed forces problem by giving amnesty, he also addressed the root cause of the problem which was feudalism and abuse towards the farmers.
I don't think our modern politicians would even have the intellect, the heart, and the budget to solve a problem in this depth. They would rather call our farmers (who are not even armed) terrorists than help them with an innovative agrarian reform program.
Correct me if I'm wrong, because I stopped tuning in to succeeding administrations after Papi Q.