Lawyers of the families of drug war victims say “lives will be saved” if a bill filed in the US Congress involving military aid and the Philippines’ response to human rights cases is passed. /PDI
Neri Colmenares, a lawyer for relatives of the drug war victims, said the bill “will be a warning [to] the perpetrators that the [international] community is watching. We ask the US Congress to pass the bill soonest and contribute to the battle against impunity in the Philippines and the world over.”
If the bill is passed, military aid restrictions will only be lifted if the government “investigated and successfully prosecuted members of military and police forces who have violated human rights, ensured that the military and police cooperated in such cases, and affirmed that such violations have ceased.”
Wild’s measure is a refiling of the same proposal she made in 2020 and 2021. Her bill was not approved both times, when US-Philippine relations were tested by the Duterte administration’s animosity toward Washington.
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