Duterteâs Forces Have a New Target: University Students
The government in the Philippines has announced a decision to end a 32-year agreement barring security forces from a prestigious campus. Students say they wonât be intimidated.
Students and activists held a protest at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City last month.Credit...Jes Aznar for The New York Times
Feb. 14, 2021
MANILA â The posters that appeared on campus were chilling. They warned that the University of the Philippines had become a breeding ground for communist sympathizers and that students and professors needed to be on high alert for antigovernment insurgents. Some students were even named as possible offenders.