From the Manila Times (Sep 9, 2021): Kalinga State U pulls out NDFP handbooks from its library (By Leander C. Domingo)
Kalinga State University may well be the first Philippine higher education institution to purge its library of National Democratic Frontprovided collections to safeguard the students and the school from communist infiltration. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
To safeguard the students and the institution from communist infiltration, the Kalinga State University (KSU) Bulanao Campus in Tabuk City has withdrawn books and related literature from its library and turned these over to the military and police, according to the KSU Board of Regents (BoR).
On its website, KSU said the decision of the BoR indicates that they are against the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) ideologies and that they wanted to protect their students from embracing its teachings.
On September 2, the director for library services office of KSU Bulanao Campus voluntarily withdrew all the NDFP-provided book collections that they have been keeping in their library for their students.
However, the KSU Bulanao Campus Library Services officials said the books were forwarded to their office and that they did not seek nor request reading materials from the NDFP.
KSU said the decision was made after the Philippine government through the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) declared the NDFP as a terrorist organization in May 2021, following the declaration through ATC Resolution. 20 in December 2020 that the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army is a terrorist group.
The university's Library Services office listed at least 11 books and other publications that were pulled out from the book gallery which were also voluntarily turned over to the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police.
These include the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHIHL) English-Filipino; CARHIHL English-Hiligaynon; CARHIHL English-Visaya; Declaration of Understanding; NDFP Declaration and Program of Action for the Rights, Protection, and Welfare of Children; The GRP (Government of the Republic of the Philippines)-NDFP Peace Negotiations Major Arguments and Joint Statements-September 1, 1980-June 2018.
Also included are The GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations Major Written Agreements and Outstanding Issues; NDF Adherence to International Humanitarian Law; Letters to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the UN Secretary-General; NDFP Adherence to International Humanitarian Law: On Prisoners of War (POWs); two articles on The People's Struggles for Just Peace; and The NDFP Reciprocal Worrying Committee (RWC) Respective on Social and Economic Reforms.
KSU also said the NDFP is a coalition of revolutionary social and economic justice organizations, agricultural unions, trade unions, indigenous rights groups, leftist political parties and other related groups in the Philippines.
The website stated that the NDFP belongs to the much broader National Democracy Movement and the communist rebellion in the Philippines that seek to overthrow the government.
Lt. Col. Melanio Somera, Pinukpok town, Kalinga-based 50th Infantry Battalion commander under the Army's 5th Infantry Division, lauded the KSU BoR for its firm decision.
"With this, there will be more Kalinga State University students and Kalinga youth generations who will be spared from Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army recruitment," he said.
To safeguard the students and the institution from communist infiltration, the Kalinga State University (KSU) Bulanao Campus in Tabuk City has withdrawn books and related literature from its library and turned these over to the military and police, according to the KSU Board of Regents (BoR).
On its website, KSU said the decision of the BoR indicates that they are against the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) ideologies and that they wanted to protect their students from embracing its teachings.
On September 2, the director for library services office of KSU Bulanao Campus voluntarily withdrew all the NDFP-provided book collections that they have been keeping in their library for their students.
However, the KSU Bulanao Campus Library Services officials said the books were forwarded to their office and that they did not seek nor request reading materials from the NDFP.
KSU said the decision was made after the Philippine government through the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) declared the NDFP as a terrorist organization in May 2021, following the declaration through ATC Resolution. 20 in December 2020 that the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army is a terrorist group.
The university's Library Services office listed at least 11 books and other publications that were pulled out from the book gallery which were also voluntarily turned over to the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police.
These include the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHIHL) English-Filipino; CARHIHL English-Hiligaynon; CARHIHL English-Visaya; Declaration of Understanding; NDFP Declaration and Program of Action for the Rights, Protection, and Welfare of Children; The GRP (Government of the Republic of the Philippines)-NDFP Peace Negotiations Major Arguments and Joint Statements-September 1, 1980-June 2018.
Also included are The GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations Major Written Agreements and Outstanding Issues; NDF Adherence to International Humanitarian Law; Letters to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the UN Secretary-General; NDFP Adherence to International Humanitarian Law: On Prisoners of War (POWs); two articles on The People's Struggles for Just Peace; and The NDFP Reciprocal Worrying Committee (RWC) Respective on Social and Economic Reforms.
KSU also said the NDFP is a coalition of revolutionary social and economic justice organizations, agricultural unions, trade unions, indigenous rights groups, leftist political parties and other related groups in the Philippines.
The website stated that the NDFP belongs to the much broader National Democracy Movement and the communist rebellion in the Philippines that seek to overthrow the government.
Lt. Col. Melanio Somera, Pinukpok town, Kalinga-based 50th Infantry Battalion commander under the Army's 5th Infantry Division, lauded the KSU BoR for its firm decision.
"With this, there will be more Kalinga State University students and Kalinga youth generations who will be spared from Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army recruitment," he said.
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