Azadeh Shahshahani is legal and advocacy director for Project South and a past president of the National Lawyers Guild.
This week is the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. The poisonous Agent Orange used by the US in the war continues to have destructive effects on the Vietnamese people, harms for which the US government still bears responsibility.
The School of the Americas/WHINSEC in Fort Benning, Georgia, has become notorious for training and enabling torturers, dictators, and massacres throughout the Western Hemisphere. But the SOA’s crimes aren’t a thing of the past — the school is still training the human rights abusers of today, especially through ICE and the Border Patrol.
Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war has killed thousands of Filipinos. It is time for the United States to stop enabling human rights violations by ending military aid to the Philippines.