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This after Duterte Youth Partylist Rep. Ducielle Cardema called on the DND to scrap the 1990 Prudente-Ramos accord that prevents members of the police and military from entering the PUP campus, saying that the state university is being given “special treatment.”
On Monday, the defense department unilaterally scrapped its 1989 agreement with the University of the Philippines (UP). Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana appeared to have red-tagged the whole institution, claiming that the New People’s Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), uses the university’s campuses as recruiting grounds.
“Hindi totoong para sa kabutihan ng iskolar ng bayan ang pagbubukas ng pamantasan sa mga pulis at militar. Ito ay bahagi ng taktika ng rehimen kung saan sila’y nagtatanim ng gawa-gawang multo sa tabing ng ‘kontra-terorismo’ upang bigyang katwiran ang pag-harass, pag-aresto, at pagpatay sa non-combatants, m
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 20) A congresswoman of the Duterte Youth Partylist has called on the Department of National Defense to scrap its pact with the Polytechnic University of the Philippines that bans the unannounced entry of uniformed security personnel in school premises.
Duterte Youth Rep. Ducielle Cardema on Tuesday said the accord between DND and the state university should also be abrogated, similar to what Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana did with the 1989 deal with the University of the Philippines. She questioned why the two universities are given special treatment when other state universities and colleges are not given a similar privilege.
Published January 20, 2021, 5:49 PM
Students across the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) decried the attempt to terminate the PUP-Department of National Defense (DND) accord signed in 1990.
Student activists from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, held a protest action in Sta. Mesa, Manila to condemn the Department of Defense’s unilateral termination of an agreement with the University of the Philippines banning the presence of military and police personnel on campuses (JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN)
Following the termination of the University of the Philippines (UP)-DND accord, Duterte Youth Partylist Rep. Ducielle Cardema on Tuesday called on DND to likewise cancel a similar agreement with PUP.
Published January 20, 2021, 11:37 AM
The hashtag DefendPUP trended on social media Tuesday night after Duterte Youth Partylist Rep. Ducielle Cardema proposed the termination of the accord between the Department of National Defense (DND) and Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) signed in 1990.
Following the termination of the University of the Philippines (UP)-DND accord, Cardema called on DND to likewise cancel a similar agreement with PUP.
The 1990 PUP-DND Accord signed by then Defense secretary Fidel V. Ramos and PUP President Nemesio Prudente safeguards PUP against police and military intervention and operations inside the University’s branches and campuses.
In a statement, the lawmaker claimed that leftist groups have abused the UP-DND and PUP-DND accord.
Instead of ending UP, PUP accord with DND, Escudero suggests other universities should enter same pact
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Francis “Chiz” Escudero, an alumni of the
University of the Philippines, suggested that all universities should enter the similar pact with the military following the termination of the
1989 UP-DND accord.
The longstanding agreement between the military and the state-run university was terminated via a letter, citing claims that UP campuses were allegedly recruitment grounds for communist rebels.
The accord mainly prohibits the military and the police from entering the UP campus without permission or notification from the UP administration except in in hot pursuit or in similar emergency cases and if it was requested by UP officials.