Country Reports on Terrorism 2022 - United States Department of State state.gov - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from state.gov Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
welcome to Move & Rappler+
‘What if there’s a shabu lab in UP?’ AFP uses drug war to justify termination of accord
Jan 20, 2021 1:25 PM PHT
What if there’s a shabu lab inside the University of the Philippines (UP)?
This was the hypothetical situation presented by Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Spokesperson Major General Edgard Arevalo in justifying the Duterte government’s abrupt termination of the 1989 accord between the state university and the Department of National Defense which prevented the military and police from freely entering UP campuses.
“
Paano na lamang po kung mayroong shabu laboratory, for instance. sa loob ng University of the Philippines community or campus and meron tayong valid arrest warrant at search warrant?” Arevalo, a lawyer, said in a press briefing on Wednesday, January 20.
Robredo: End of UP-DND deal ‘designed to silence criticism’
Jan 19, 2021 10:27 AM PHT
Vice President Leni Robredo on Tuesday, January 19, questioned the Duterte’s government decision to end its deal with the University of the Philippines (UP) that has kept state forces from freely entering its campuses over the last 3 decades.
The Philippine opposition leader, a UP graduate, said in a statement that the government s unilateral termination of the 1989 accord supposedly to stop in-campus communist recruitment, is designed to muzzle dissent. If this was simply about law enforcement, all the Accord asks is that military authorities give notice to University officials before any operations in UP. This is neither a difficult nor onerous rule, and 5 Presidents since 1989 have managed to protect both the UP community and the Republic without breaking it, she said.
endIndex:
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 19) As the Defense Department unilaterally moved to terminate a 1989 pact that prohibits the unauthorized entry of police and military personnel in University of the Philippines’ campuses, another deal has consistently been mentioned as its basis the Soto-Enrile agreement.
In an Oct. 29, 1981 letter, then Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile told student groups that the police would not enter any campus nationwide unless requested by students or school authorities, and that the military would not interfere in “peaceful student protest actions.” In return, student protesters should notify the police ahead of any demonstration, the letter stated.