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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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For victims of Agent Orange, final battle still being waged Tom Fawthrop
[30-04-2005] Vietnam is celebrating a historic victory over the US while promoting greater economic co-operation with its former enemy.
But the former vice-president Nguyen Thi Binh is fighting one last battle with the US: "A battle for justice and compensation for the victims of Agent Orange."
During the Vietnam War 80 million litres of the herbicide that contains high concentrations of deadly dioxin - an unwanted by-product of Agent Orange that cannot be removed from the defoliant - were sprayed over 10 per cent of the rainforest and mangroves of South Vietnam to destroy the jungle foliage providing cover for Vietcong guerillas.
Not only was the beautiful rainforest transformed into a barren wilderness, but there is substantial evidence that the highly toxic dioxins in Agent Orange are responsible for a wide range of serious diseases, including various cancers and many grotesque childbirth deformities.
The official US Government position is that there is no scientific evidence to prove the connection between Agent Orange spraying and the ill-heath of an estimated 1 million Vietnamese who say they have been exposed to the deadly cocktail. Madame Binh - who addressed anti-war rallies in London and Paris in the 1960s, and led the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, the political arm of the Vietcong, at the Paris Peace Talks in 1973 - is still campaigning.
In an interview in Ho Chi Minh City she bitterly complained about the US refusal to accept responsibility for the consequences of chemical warfare.
Instead of enjoying retirement, Madame Binh, 78, has become an activist and leader of the Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin.
"We have done our best to help the US to find the remains of GIs [US soldiers classified as missing in action during the war]," she said. "But the US attitude to Agent Orange is not helpful. We call on the US to solve the problem based with a humanitarian spirit."
Last year the association filed a class action in a New York district court against US firms including Monsanto and Dow Chemical, the two biggest suppliers of Agent Orange to the Pentagon.
However, the same judge who in 1985 presided over an out-of-court settlement between the US companies and US war veterans, rejected the case brought on behalf of the Vietnamese plaintiffs. It is now on appeal in the US. Last year the association successfully pressured the Vietnamese Government to increase benefits for the dioxin victims.
The Vietnamese leadership, anxious to encourage foreign investment and keen to increase exports to the US, has continued to permit Monsanto and Dow Chemical to maintain representative offices in Saigon.
But several Vietnamese newspapers have queried why "enemies of the Vietnamese people" should be allowed to promote their products.
Another feisty Vietnamese woman is determined that these two companies responsible for manufacturing Agent Orange for the Pentagon should no longer benefit from Vietnam's hospitality.
Nguyen Thi Hang Nga, an MP, said: "It will be a long and hard struggle to get justice. Sooner or later we will withdraw their licence based on a resolution in the National Assembly."
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