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Malacañang says the enactment of a law that would amend the University of the Philippines (UP) Act of 2008 to require prior notification on the entry of police or military units to campuses, saying it was a "reasonable" proposal.
Advertisement The Philippine government announced Monday that it had terminated an agreement with the University of the Philippines (UP) that prohibits state security forces from entering its campuses, leading to protests by students and faculty and fears of academic repression. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said he had ended the UP-DND accord, signed in 1989 between the university and then-defense chief Fidel Ramos, citing baseless claims that the Communist Party of the Philippines and New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) are recruiting students on campus. President Rodrigo Duterte’s governm...
SunStar Editorial Cartoon by John Gilbert Manantan + January 22, 2021 DEPARTMENT of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana’s unilateral decision to drop the University of the Philippines-DND Accord via a notice to UP President Danilo Concepcion Jr. pointed out a number of reasons for the abrogation, but it exposed Lorenzana’s rather simplistic view of the pact’s reason for being, that it was at the outset simply a “gesture of courtesy accorded to UP upon the University’s request.” This is the same Lorenzana who was chief administrator of the Mindanao martia...
AFP’s major services back DND abrogation of accord with UP By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News Published January 21, 2021 3:21pm Updated January 21, 2021 4:34pm The major services of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Thursday backed the decision of the Department of National Defense (DND) to abrogate its 31-year-old agreement with the University of the Philippines on the ban on entry of government security forces in its campuses. In a statement issued Thursday, the Philippine Navy said the termination of the pact was not an impairment to academic freedom, freedom of speech, ...
The longstanding 1989 accord between UP and the Department of National Defense was suddenly terminated on January 15 via a letter to UP President Danilo Concepcion, citing claims that the university became a hotbed for the recruitment of communist rebels. The historic deal signed by then UP President Jose Abueva and Defense chief Fidel Ramos 30 years ago has prohibited state forces from entering UP campuses without the permission of the school administration. Exceptions warranting state forces’ presence cover hot pursuit operations and similar emergency cases, and if UP officials req...