MANILA, Philippines — Deputy Speaker Mikee Romero is proposing that the National Commission of the Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), Department of National Defense (DND) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) enter into a similar agreement as the UP-DND accord to prohibit military and police personnel from entering indigenous peoples’ schools without prior notice.
Romero made the call during Wednesday’s meeting of the House committee on human rights on the raid and mass arrest against lumad evacuees seeking sanctuary in Cebu.
“As precedent of the 1989 University of the Philippines and the Department of National Defense Accord, I propose before I end this opening statemen…
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