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Le procès à travers la presse et la radio 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: Time La page peut être déjà retirée. The Last Battle of Vietnam [12-03-2007]  Clean up after yourself. It's a rule that we learn early in life. Now, more than 30 years after the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam, the time has come to follow that rule. In Vietnam these days, unlike many other places, both the people and their leaders are generally friendly toward the U.S. Vietnam has just joined the World Trade Organization, and America is both its largest export market and source of foreign investment. Intel is building a $1 billion chipmaking plant near Ho Chi Minh City. That's heartening, given that a generation ago we were bogged down in a war in Vietnam that seemed almost as intractable as the Iraq war does today. It's also a cause for humility because it shows that dominoes don't always fall as predicted. After the communists won in Vietnam, they got into wars with the communists in Cambodia and then China. There is, however, one wound still festering. During the Vietnam War, America sprayed close to 20 million gal. of Agent Orange, a herbicide that defoliated forests and left behind a residue of dioxin. The U.S. military also left behind 28 hot spots where Agent Orange had been used or stored that have not been properly contained. The Vietnamese say the dioxin is responsible for such disabilities as muscular and skeletal disorders and such birth defects as mental retardation. Studies at the University of Hanoi indicate a higher incidence of these problems among people who were exposed to dioxin. I have just returned from a trip up and down Vietnam with two colleagues from the Aspen Institute that was sponsored by the Ford Foundation, which under its president, Susan Berresford, and Vietnam director, Charles Bailey, has led the way in finding practical solutions to the Agent Orange problem. In the areas around the Da Nang airport, which is on the site of a former American air base, high levels of dioxin have been detected. We walked the barren ground around the air base and went to a house near one of the ponds, which belatedly were closed for fishing once tests showed the levels of the poison. The responsibility for these health problems is less clear. In low-lying Quang Ngai province, south of Da Nang, where the spraying of Agent Orange was especially heavy, there are almost 15,000 residents officially classified by the Vietnamese government as dioxin victims. We also went to Thai Binh province, along the northern coast. Although it is far from the sprayed areas, a large proportion of its male population fought in the war, and there is a high incidence of birth defects in subsequent generations there. Scientists have not been able to prove a direct link between Agent Orange and the disabilities, and attempts by American and Vietnamese officials to come to a consensus have not succeeded. Indeed, efforts to resolve the issue will remain paralyzed if both sides insist on waiting for scientific proof. A practical and sensible resolution is possible. The U.S. should help immediately to contain and then clean up the contaminated sites. After all, we made the mess. Michael Marine, the departing U.S. ambassador in Hanoi, has been able to win a small amount of funding from Washington, supplemented by the Ford Foundation, to start this process. As for the health concerns, there is no need to pin precise blame or liability. They can be addressed as a humanitarian issue rather than as a compensation case. From Thai Binh down to Quang Ngai province, there is a need for rehabilitation centers, health clinics, family counseling, and education for the afflicted children who cannot go to regular schools. Out of both a sense of duty and a spirit of decency, U.S. government aid programs and private philanthropies should step forward to settle this last remaining dispute from the Vietnam War. Over the past few months, there has been increased public awareness of the issue in the U.S., including a brutally vivid article by Christopher Hitchens and photographer James Nachtwey in last August's Vanity Fair. When President Bush visited Vietnam in November, the joint statement he issued with Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet cautiously referred to the need "to address the environmental contamination near former dioxin storage sites" and for "humanitarian assistance ... to Vietnamese with disabilities." Should Congress and the Defense Department choose to get with this program, they could go a long way toward resolving this crucial issue by the time President Triet visits Washington in June. Only then will America finally have closed the last chapter of the Vietnam War and turned its former adversary into a solid strategic ally. And addressing this issue will remind us that living up to our values and showing basic decency is, in fact, the best way to win hearts and minds. Khung Thoung Sinh, 3, is held by a nurse at Peace village inside the Tu Du hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on May 2, 2005. He was born without eyes having been deformed since birth from what may be the effects of defoliant Agent Orange. 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 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. Articles parus dans les journaux depuis le 28/02/2005.