Mandatory ROTC? Remember Mark Chua.

 Mandatory ROTC? Remember Mark Chua. 

"THOSE WHO want to restore a mandatory ROTC should remember why in the first place it was abolished. In 2001, our Congress passed a law saying that the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) shall henceforth be merely optional and voluntary. It was in response to a consensus that the ROTC had long outlived its purpose and had become merely another weekend drudgery that taught not nationalism but corruption. 

✍️ | Raul Cano Pangalangan, retired Judge of ICC | 08/05/2010/Inquirer 

NOTE:

ROTC was made optional under the National Service Training Program, which was passed following the Chua’s death in 2001. 

Mark Welson Chua (November 30, 1981 - March 18, 2001) was a Filipino student of the University of Santo Tomas whose death is widely believed to be linked to his exposé of alleged irregularities in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit of the university. His death became the catalyst for the passage of Republic Act 9163 or the "National Service Training Program Law", which removed completion of mandatory ROTC as a precondition for graduation for male college students in the Philippines. 

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📸: Photo courtesy of the International Criminal Court (ICC).