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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
14-12-2006 Recherches sur cancer et produits chimiques financées par l'industrie chimique ? Actualités News Environnement
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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Vietnamese suit over Agent Orange dismissed
[10-03-2005] NEW YORK - A judge dismissed a lawsuit on Thursday that accused chemical companies of committing war crimes by supplying the U.S. military with Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.
The class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of about four million Vietnamese, who said they had suffered illnesses and their land had been poisoned by Agent Orange and other herbicides sprayed by U.S. aircraft.
* FROM APRIL 17, 2003: Use of Agent Orange in Vietnam underestimated
The suit named more than 30 companies, including Dow Chemical Co. and Monsanto Co.
U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein ruled that the defoliant and similar products could not be considered poisons banned under international rules of war – even if they had similar effects.
"There is no basis for any of the claims of plaintiffs under the domestic law of any nation or state or under any form of international law," the federal judge wrote in a 233-page ruling.
Link between illnesses, chemical not proven: judge
The suit marked the first time that Vietnamese plaintiffs had sought compensation for the effects of Agent Orange.
U.S. aircraft dropped more than 80 million litres of the chemical on the Southeast Asian country from 1962 to 1971, trying to ruin the crops and to kill the foliage that the Communist forces were using as cover.
Agent Orange contains dioxin, a highly toxic chemical that has been linked to cancer, diabetes, birth defects, organ dysfunctions and other health problems.
Thousands of U.S. war veterans receive disability benefits related to Agent Orange.
However, the judge ruled that the plaintiffs couldn't prove the herbicide caused their illnesses, noting that there hadn't been sufficient research to draw the link.
Case seen as test of president's powers
Monsanto, Dow Chemical and other companies had argued that they shouldn't be punished for producing the chemical because they were essentially under orders from the country's commander-in-chief.
The U.S. government had watched the decision closely because it was seen as a test of the president's power to authorize the use of hazardous materials during war.
A lawyer for the plaintiffs said they planned to appeal.
Agent Orange got its name because of the coloured stripes on the containers.
The toxins from it persist in soil and water in parts of the southern half of Vietnam. Tree cover has regrown in many places but the chemicals have made their way into the tissues of fish and fowl eaten by the people who live there.
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