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15-09-2007 Agent Orange, Indemnisation des Victimes (... au Canada) Radio Canada
19-06-2007 L'agent orange en procès à New York France 24
15-06-2007 L'agent orange poursuit ses ravages au Vietnam Réseau Canoë
27-03-2007 Ministry offers support to dioxin sufferers Stuff.co.nz (New Zealand)
21-03-2007 Agent Orange : Des soldats seront indemnisés Radio Canada
12-03-2007 The Last Battle of Vietnam Time
05-03-2007 Philips taken to court over Agent Orange claims worth 1 bln eur CNN Money
12-02-2007 Monsanto dumped toxic waste in UK The Guardian - UK
12-02-2007 Dioxine : aide américaine à décontaminer l’aéroport de Dà Nang Courrier du Vietnam
09-02-2007 US cash for Agent Orange study BBC
30-01-2007 Late US veteran gives $50,000 aid to Agent Orange victims
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09-12-2006 Un chercheur rémunéré par l'industrie chimique NouvelObs.com
05-06-2006 Vietnam: pas d'indemnisation des victimes de l'Agent orange Romandie.com
01-06-2006 Agent orange, Ottawa publie ses rapports d'enquête Radio Canada
24-05-2006 VIETNAM • "L'agent orange est une arme de destruction massive" www.courrierinternational.com
01-05-2005 The things they still carry Daily Southtown
30-04-2005 For victims of Agent Orange, final battle still being waged Fairfax Digital (Australia)
29-04-2005 US appeals court to consider Agent Orange appeal in June Vietnam new agency
27-04-2005 Vietnam les oubliés de la dioxine Le Monde .fr
25-04-2005 Trente ans après la guerre, un million de Vietnamiens souffrent encore des effets du terrible Agent Orange. Ouest-France
24-04-2005 Rediscovering Vietnam: Agent Orange's effects St Louis Today (St Louis Web site
24-04-2005 A long-ago war's grimmest legacy lives on NorthJersey.com
22-04-2005 GAO Report on Agent Orange: Limited Information Is Available on the Number of Civilians Exposed in Vietnam and Their Workers' Compensation Claims All American Patriot
17-04-2005 Agent Orange Dioxin Raises Cancer Risk in Vietnam Veterans Food Consumer
12-04-2005 Spokane native to be honored posthumously The SpokesMan-Review.com
09-04-2005 Vietnamese appeal U.S. court's ruling on Agent Orange case Newsday.com
08-04-2005 Vietnamese Agent Orange victims file appeal request Thanh Nien News
07-04-2005 US abandons health study on Agent Orange Nature 434, 687
01-04-2005 Peter Yarrow apologizes to Vietnam Associated Press
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Chemical companies seek end to Agent Orange litigation MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN (Associated Press Writer)
[28-02-2005] NEW YORK -- Chemical companies that supplied Agent Orange to U.S. forces in Vietnam asked a federal judge in Brooklyn on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit by Vietnamese citizens who say they were poisoned by the defoliant.
The plaintiffs allege that Monsanto, Dow Chemical and more than a dozen other firms violated international laws barring the use of poison and chemical weapons by producing Agent Orange, which caused tumors, birth defects and other serious health problems. They are seeking potentially billions of dollars in damages.
Lawyers for the companies argued Monday that U.S. courts had no power to penalize the corporations for executing the orders of an American president exercising his powers as commander-in-chief. They also said that international law generally exempted corporations, as opposed to individuals, from criminal and civil liability for alleged war crimes.
U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein seemed skeptical of the argument that corporations should enjoy such a broad exemption under international law. He also questioned whether presidential orders exempted the firms, drawing several parallels to the actions of Nazis and German corporations during World War II.
"The fact that all power was centralized under Hitler did not permit all people operating under his orders to violate international law," Weinstein said.
But Weinstein also indicated skepticism about the plaintiffs' claims that the use of Agent Orange violated laws in place during the Vietnam War, saying it was far from clear that long-standing agreements barring weapons such as poison gas applied to the case.
The civil suit is the first attempt by Vietnamese plaintiffs to seek legal redress as victims of Agent Orange, which was used by U.S. forces in Vietnam to clear jungles and swamps and destroy crops used by communist forces. More than 21 million gallons of the chemical, containing the deadly component dioxin, were sprayed by U.S. aircraft from 1962 to 1971.
Some 10,000 U.S. war veterans already receive medical disability benefits related to Agent Orange, which scientists have blamed for an array of latent effects _ including cancer, diabetes and birth defects _ among those veterans and Vietnam's civilian populace.
Vietnam has claimed that up to a million people were affected by Agent Orange and other chemicals and that wide areas of land and waters were poisoned. A study last year showed high levels of dioxin persist in food samples.
The Vietnamese government has said the United States has a moral responsibility to heal war damage but has never sought compensation for victims. The U.S. government has contended the claimed effects of Agent Orange are not supported by direct evidence.
The Justice Department also has asked Weinstein to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that opening the U.S. courts to former wartime enemies could threaten presidential power to wage war.
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