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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: The Manille Times
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DOUBLETAKE - Agent Orange


Eric F. Mallonga

[28-03-2005]   NEW ZEALAND Transport Minister Harry Duyn­hoven revealed, in the Sunday News, that New Zealand supplied Agent Orange to the American military from New Plymouth to Subic Naval Base, Olongapo City, during the Vietnam War. The disclosure led to immediate claims that New Zealand was in breach of the Geneva Convention and could face a flood of lawsuits from Vietnam War veterans and the Vietnamese people. Agent Orange is a highly toxic chemical used as defoliant for Vietnam forests, bringing on hallucinogenic results with permanent brain damage as psychological and physiological disorders are experienced by persons with exposure thereto throughout their lives and may even be passed on, through such hereditary strain, to the next generations.

After nearly three decades of official denials, a high-level parliamentary committee formally acknowledged late last year that New Zealand soldiers in Vietnam War were significantly exposed to Agent Orange, but no mention was ever made that New Zealand was a supplier. Some veterans are seeking compensation for chronic illnesses suffered by them and their families. Although the National Party was in power during the Vietnam War, Duynhoven said his current Labor government was responsible for setting the record straight: “Any government has to deal with the situation it finds itself in and it’s always a problem if previous governments leave a mess.”

From 1961 to 1971, the US and South Vietnamese military sprayed millions of litters of toxic herbicides, mainly Agent Orange, over South Vietnam to destroy vegetation used by communist forces for cover and food. The Hanoi-based Vietnamese government says the defoliant has caused health problems for more than one million Vietnamese and continues to have devastating consequences. A study released in August last year by scientists from United States, Germany and Vietnam found Agent Orange still contaminating people through their food after four decades since their first exposure. John Muller, former president of Vietnam Veterans Association, suggested to a government committee last year that New Zealand breached the Geneva Convention by allowing the chemical to be used. Dioxin, the defoliant’s deadly component, can cause an increased risk of cancers, immuno-deficiencies, reproductive and developmental changes, nervous system problems and other health effects.

On the other hand, a New Zealand company, specifically Ivon Watkins Dow (now Dow AgroSciences), denied it supplied Agent Orange chemicals. Its general manager, Peter Dryden, claimed that the issue had been previously made and “exhaustively examined” by a 1990 New Zealand parliamentary inquiry, wherein “all existing documentation, including export records, and that committee concluded that there was no evidence whatever in support of the claim.” Defense Minister Mark Burton said the fresh claims would be looked into. He rejected allegations that there had been a cover up by his Labor Party government.

In the Philippines, immediately after said publication, Subic Base officials immediately belied claims of toxic waste contamination at the former American military bases, especially contamination by Agent Orange. The denial of base officials continues to impede any sincere effort to a formal admission that America has both moral and legal responsibility and must immediately remediate the former military bases it had contaminated, despite prior admissions from former State Secretary Colin Powell and the deceased Admiral Eugene Collins, the commanding officer of the US Pacific Fleet. Contamination was already proven by the US General Auditing Office, which specifically identified at least 43 contaminated sites at each of their former bases.

When officials of the World Association of Children’s Friends (AMADE-Phil.) coordinated with the Department of Foreign Affairs to arrange a courtesy call of Her Royal Highness Princess Caroline of Monaco to President Arroyo, DFA Undersecretary Franklin Ebda­lin questioned the scheduled royal visit to the former American military bases. He arrogantly claimed that the Philippine government was doing something about it even as thousands of people, more particularly children, have already died as a result of toxic waste contamination from the biologica1, chemical, and other poisonous wastes dumped by the American military in the bases in Angeles and Olongapo cities. Ebdalin even audaciously insisted that no publicity be made on the matter because the American government did not want to publicize any remediation efforts and victim compensation that it may undertake precisely because it had other military bases established all over the world and did not want such governmental action to constitute a precedent. In other words, Ebdalin implied that America had been contaminating the world through toxic wastes in its military bases and did not wish other governments to get the idea that it could claim remediation and compensation from the American government.

It is strange that there have been no remediation or victim compensation efforts by either the American or Philippine governments despite Princess Caroline’s humanitarian visits to the former American military bases. If indeed America has contaminated its bases all over the world, similar to its contaminating Philippine environs, then it must be held accountable, not just for criminal neglect but for its malicious contamination with its full knowledge of the disastrous environmental consequences. If no efforts are undertaken soon, then America must be held criminally accountable for these crimes against humanity on Filipino children, who slowly suffer excruciating and agonizing deaths annually.




Croix Rouge Vietnamienne

Croix Rouge Vietnamienne
82 Nguyen Du, Hanoi
Vietnam
Tel: 00 844 8224030 et
00 844 9420860
Fax: 00 844 9424285
Email: agoravif@fpt.vn


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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