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In a tweet, Lorenzana said: “Sa UP mayroon silang ala-demilitarized zone (In UP, they have a demilitarized zone). Military can’t enter without coordination. What makes UP so special? Nasa Korean border ba kayo? CLOY is life na ba? (Are you in the Korean border? CLOY is life?)” Lorenzana made the remark after he sent a letter to UP President Danilo Concepcion last January 15, informing the latter of his decision to abrogate the Department of National Defense (DND)-UP Accord of 1989 which prohibits the entry of state forces inside the University premises without prior coordination. The ac...

Published January 19, 2021, 4:13 PM The League of Filipino Students (LFS) denounced on Tuesday the unilateral termination of the 1989agreement signed between the Department of National Defense (DND) and the University of the Philippines (UP), which prohibits state security forces from entering the campus premises without prior notice to the school administration. (LFS FACEBOOK / MANILA BULLETIN) In a letter addressed to UP President Danilo Concepcion, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said that the Department of National Defense finds the 1989 accord “as a hindrance in providing effectiv...

By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News Published January 19, 2021 5:06pm Various student councils from the University of the Philippines denounced the move of the Department of National Defense to end its 31-year-old agreement with UP regarding the prohibition on the entry of police and military in its campuses. They maintained that the DND's decision was an attack on academic freedom as well as on freedom of speech. "This goes against the decades of the student and people's defense against the violation of our academic freedom, our right to study, speak, and investigate on social issues witho...

Published January 19, 2021 7:38pm The chancellor of the University of the Philippines' (UP) flagship campus on Tuesday said the defense department needs to show proof of its claim that the university is a venue for "clandestine recruitment" into the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People's Army. Members of the UP community are protesting the Department of National Defense's (DND) unilateral termination of a 31-year-old pact with the university barring the entry of state forces into its campuses without prior notice to UP officials. In junking an agreement that has for deca...

Philippine students and activists protested on Tuesday against a government decision to allow security forces to patrol the campuses of the country's biggest university after authorities accused it of being a breeding ground for communist rebels.