Progressive youth organizations mounted successive protests condemning the brutal killing of Willie Amihoy, a Re­serve Officers Trai­ning Corps (ROTC) cadet in the Iloilo Sta­te Col­le­ge of Fis­he­ri­es. The protesters said that ROTC reinforces bullying and violence among students.

Various youth groups in UP Cebu and Kabataan Partylist-Panay also conducted protests on March 12 and 13, respectively, to condemn the killing. In Metro Manila, students from University of the East, Pa­man­ta­san ng Lun­sod ng May­ni­la, and Far East­ern Univer­sity (FEU) staged a candle-lighting ceremony in front of the latter to oppose the proposal to implement mandatory ROTC. Similar protest actions were also launched in other universities across Metro Manila.

Meanwhile, various student organizations in UP Los Ba­ños, Laguna condemned the Armed Forces of the Philippines for conducting a forum wherein legal and progressive youth organizations were tagged as communist fronts. A similar forum was conducted by the AFP in UP Tacloban on March 10, wherein the Pul­so han Mag-aa­ram student alliance was likewise Red-tagged.