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UP official decries AFP's ‘show of force’ inside campus Published January 20, 2021 10:08pm An official of the University of the Philippines-Diliman on Wednesday denounced the entry of troops from the 7th Civil Relations Group of the Civil Relations Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines inside the campus to inspect their urban gardening project. The visit was conducted after the Department of National Defense unilaterally abrogated the agreement with the university banning military and police forces inside the campus if there is no coordination. “For us talaga, it was, pa...
Published January 20, 2021 9:38am Updated January 20, 2021 11:00am Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque on Wednesday offered help in facilitating the meeting between Department of National Defense and University of the Philippines officials regarding the termination of a decades-long accord on military and police presence on campuses. “I will offer my good office so that the UP president and the Secretary of National Defense can discuss this matter,” Roque said in an interview on CNN Philippines. A UP alumnus and former member of UP faculty, Roque said he supports UP President Dan...
By JULIA MARI ORNEDO, GMA News Published January 20, 2021 6:38pm The termination of a decades-old pact barring military and police forces from freely entering the University of the Philippines (UP) was an “assault” on the state university’s academic freedom and institutional autonomy, two student parties said Wednesday. Alumni and members of SAMASA and Nagkaisang Tugon, whose activism in the ‘80s and ‘90s led to the creation of the 1989 accord between UP and the Department of National Defense (DND), said the termination of the pact was a “barefaced betrayal.” On Monday, D...
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said he is open to negotiating the abrogation of the UP-DND accord which bans the military and the police inside