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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


From: People's Weekly World Newspaper
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Vietnam’s victims of Agent Orange to appeal ruling


Mark Almberg

[17-03-2005]  Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange, the highly toxic defoliant used by the U.S. during the Vietnam War, have vowed to appeal the March 10 ruling by a U.S. federal judge dismissing their lawsuit against Dow Chemical, Monsanto, and 35 other companies that manufactured the poison.



The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange says that over 4 million Vietnamese still suffer the harmful effects of exposure to dioxin, the most lethal ingredient in the deadly poisons sprayed by the Pentagon on Vietnam’s countryside more than 40 years ago.

Nguyen Van Quy, 49, one of the plaintiffs in the case, served as a soldier in the North Vietnamese army during the war. He reacted to U.S. Judge Jack Weinstein’s decision to dismiss the suit with a pledge to press on.



“I’m determined to pursue the case until the end, because this is justice,” he told The Associated Press. “I’ll fight, not just for myself, but for millions of other Vietnamese victims.” Quy is waging a battle against stomach and liver cancer, which he blames on exposure to Agent Orange. He also blames dioxin for inflicting genetic damage on his children. He has an 18-year-old son who was born with spinal problems and learning disabilities, and his 16-year-old daughter is deaf, mute and developmentally disabled.



“Those who produced these toxic chemicals must take responsibility for their actions,” he said.



Quy and other victims charge that the chemical companies, by knowingly manufacturing the highly poisonous Agent Orange for the U.S. military, committed war crimes and violated international law. They say the companies are therefore liable and must provide compensation to the victims, who continue to suffer from cancers, spina bifida, miscarriages, severe birth defects and deformities,



diabetes and a host of other ailments caused by direct and indirect exposure to the chemicals.



U.S. troops were also exposed to the defoliants and continue to suffer grave medical consequences, as well.



Barry Romo, a national coordinator of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), said in a telephone interview from his home in Chicago that the domestic fallout of the U.S. military’s use of Agent Orange “just hasn’t stopped.”



“The GIs who were most exposed died the quickest,” Romo said, “but there are many others who are getting older now and the cancers and neurological problems keep cropping up.”



VVAW was the first veterans’ group to raise the alarm about Agent Orange in 1971, and was part of a historic lawsuit against the chemical companies by U.S. vets seeking compensation for the illnesses and disabilities flowing from their exposure to the chemical. In 1984, the courts awarded $180 million — far less than what VVAW sought — to more than 10,000 GIs who were suffering from exposure to Agent Orange.



Romo noted that Judge Weinstein, who dismissed the current lawsuit on the grounds that it has no basis in domestic or international law, was the same judge who ruled in favor of the GIs in 1984.



“If the judge could rule 21 years ago that the chemical companies were responsible, how can he rule now that the situation is totally different? He’s backtracking, especially in view of the fact that we know a whole lot more about dioxin today, after Times Beach [Mo.] and Love Canal [N.Y.]. Dioxin kills.”



Romo said most Vietnam veterans will see the lawsuit by the Vietnamese as addressing “a question of justice,” and will see that “the people who we were fighting are now having children born with deformities, all because of what our government did.”



More than 21 million gallons of toxic chemicals — over half of which consisted of Agent Orange — were dumped on South Vietnam’s forests, waterways, villages, rice fields, and other crops from 1961 to 1971 under the name of “Operation Ranch Hand.”



The Pentagon said the aim was to deny cover and food to Vietnam’s liberation fighters, and claimed that the use of herbicides was not prohibited under international law or the rules of war. Records show, however, that the Pentagon and the chemical companies knew at the time how deadly these chemicals, particularly dioxin, were to human life and the environment.



For more information about the case, the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange, and news about a recent international conference in Paris on the issue, visit http://vava.portal.vinacomm.com.vn/. Vietnam Veterans Against the War can be reached at www.vvaw.org.

malmberg @ pww.org

Photo
Nguyen Van Quy, right, sits with his son Nguyen Quang Trung, left, and his daughter Ngyuen Thi Thuy Nga at his house in Hai Phong in July 2004. Nguyen Van Quy believes his cancer and his children’s birth defects were caused by exposure to Agent Orange.




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Croix Rouge Vietnamienne
82 Nguyen Du, Hanoi
Vietnam
Tel: 00 844 8224030 et
00 844 9420860
Fax: 00 844 9424285
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Office of Genetic Counseling & Disabled Children

OGCDC
Hue Medical College
06 Ngo Quyen Street
Hue City - Vietnam
Tel: +84 54 833694
Fax: +84 54 826269
Email: ogcdc@dng.vnn.vn


Fund for Reconciliation and Development

Pour suivre le Procès en cours à New York:

Visitez la page
Agent Orange Lawsuit

de cette organisation.


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