Youth organizations note that a Baguio court has already prohibited the tagging of their associations as communist front organizations.
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – The National Union of Students in the Philippines Baguio-Benguet urged the regional office of the Commission on Higher Education in the Cordillera to withdraw its memorandum endorsing a Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict -initiated activity.
NUSP Baguio-Benguet cited the November 8 CYPC at the University of Baguio, where a speaker tagged several organizations as youth fronts of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army . “Cognizant the said undertaking is part of our government’s effort in the promotion of peace and security in our land, the Office hereby requests your cooperation,” said the memo addressed to the heads of higher education institutions in the region.
The NUSP chair said that the “the purpose and content” of the RTF-ELCAC activity “are the same as last year,” referring to the“We want to stress that they should take accountability for this and retract the memorandum. This is not the first time that the office issued a memorandum encouraging military and police [activities] in our schools that turned into red-tagging sessions,” Calanio said.
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