By Segundo Eclar Romero
Philippine Daily Inquirer-Dec 4
Universities and colleges are the tinderboxes of society. We see this at play in Hong Kong and Bangkok. Filipino students from Ateneo, University of Santo Tomas, University of the Philippines, and elsewhere are similarly astir. If they seem slow to mobilize, it is not due to the dearth of radicalizing issues. President Duterte has generously and continuously dangled a lot of provocative issues, among them the deadly war on drugs, his government’s fawning on China, endless corruption, the anti-terror law, the closure of the ABS-CBN network, the red-tagging of student activists and legislators, human rights abuses, negligence in dealing with COVID-19 and successive devastating storms, and the weaponization of the law against Sen. Leila de Lima, then Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, and Vice President Leni Robredo.
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