[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL, HERBICIDES, MUNITIONS: "Agent Orange and unexploded bombs: America's 'human rights' record in Vietnam"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Agent Orange and unexploded bombs: America's “human rights” record in Vietnam
 
by Brett S. Morris
Vox Media
June 2, 2016 

During President Barack Obama's visit to Vietnam last month, he announced the end of Washington's longstanding arms embargo against the country. Officially, the United States has always maintained that ending the embargo would be contingent upon Vietnam improving its human rights record. But despite lifting the embargo, Obama toldthe Vietnamese people that the country's human rights record is "an area where we still have differences."

This is all rather farcical. The framing of the issue itself is ridiculous: In order for a country to receive technology expressly designed for the purpose of killing other human beings, it must first demonstrate its commitment to human rights.

Moreover, the United States is the world's leading arms exporter and regularly sells and provides arms to some of the world's worst dictatorships and human rights offenders.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.vox.com/2016/6/2/11819304/vietnam-american-bombs

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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