“What reason will they give? I do not know. It’s an unpardonable gaffe,” the defense chief said in a message to reporters on Sunday.Lorenzana also had an apparent change of heart over the weekend and expressed his intention to hold a dialogue with UP president Danilo Concepcion, with or without the explanation he sought from him for the UP students who, he claimed, were recruited into the NPA and killed in encounters with the military.
The defense chief said he had asked “a friend” to facilitate a meeting with Concepcion “sometime next week.” Lorenzana said “a lot of people whom he respects” convinced him to talk with the university president over his termination of the 1989 UP agreement with the Department of National Defense , which bars security forces from UP campuses without prior approval from university authorities. But he did not identify them.
On Jan. 15, Lorenzana wrote to Concepcion, informing him of the termination of the agreement. He later described the accord as obsolete and had outlived its purpose.In a statement on Sunday, Sen. Francis Pangilinan said “it is sad that some in the AFP are giving the institution a bad name and tainting its professionalism.”“We cannot afford to have a politicized and unprofessional AFP.
“Those in the military who are doing this must stop the practice of Red-tagging. Falsely labeling people makes them targets of harassment and, worst, killings,” said the senator, who once headed the UP student council. —
jiandradeINQ Ang laki-laki ng Intel Funds niyo, palpak pa.
jiandradeINQ The funny yet sad thing is they have billions of taxpayers money for their intelligence fund, and still can't keep a simple list accurate...smfho!
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jiandradeINQ Red tag pa more.. inutil ang intel.nyo
jiandradeINQ Apologize to the whole UP community & other universities implicated in this mess!
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