UPV head: even PMA produced NPA rebels

 Aside from invoking "academic freedom" as ground to oppose defense secretary Delfin Lorenzana who unilaterally abrogated the Soto-Enrile accord, University of the Philippines--Visayas chancellor Clement C. Camposano, also asked him to revisit his (Lorenzana's) alma matter, the Philippine Military Academy (PMA).

Lorenzana unilaterally abrogated January 19 the agreement signed by student leader Sonia Soto and then defense secretary Juan Ponce Enrile in 1982 to protect students from police and military presence in schools intended to clamp down on dissent and protests.

The accorded was firmed up June 30, 1989 by UP president Jose Abueva and DND secretary Fidel V. Ramos that set the guidelines for the police and Armed Forces to follow in their operations in the UP system throughout the country. 

Paraphrasing Camposano interviewed on Aksyon Radyo: UP has no monopoly in having students who took to the hills to join the rebel New People's Army (NPA).

Practically all schools have that, even the PMA where Lorenzana graduated, said Camposano. 

He was referring to Lt. Victor Corpus, who led a raid of the academy's armory in 1971. Corpus belonged to PMA Class '71 and was instructor at the school.

Camposano further pointed to Raymundo Jarque, a retired army general, who defected to the NPA in 1995. Jarque was bitter for his lost pension benefits after he was wrongly accused and convicted administratively by the Ombudsman.


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