“The first reported instance of this book-purging is in Kalinga State University where books and documents on peace negotiations between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) were pulled out after a group of police and soldiers inspected the university library on September 1, 2021. Among the texts removed from the library are documents signed between the government and the NDFP during previous and historical peace negotiations, among several other NDFP documents. According to Evangeline Cabello, KSU’s chief librarian, she decided to remove the documents to “protect [the students] from being recruited to join communist groups,” adding that she acted voluntarily and thought that some not should have been removed. Moreover, she simply put the books “somewhere else” and had not turned them over to authorities (Subingsubing and Visaya).”
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Jecko is a senior BA Communication Arts student at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. He is interested in criticism, cultural memory, and creative writing.
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