The US government has agreed to clean up the residue of the highly toxic defoliant Agent Orange buried below Da Nang Airport in central Vietnam.
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
US agrees to clean up Agent Orange
US agrees to clean up Agent Orange
The US government has agreed to clean up the residue of the highly toxic defoliant Agent Orange buried below Da Nang Airport in central Vietnam.
The US government has agreed to clean up the residue of the highly toxic defoliant Agent Orange buried below Da Nang Airport in central Vietnam.
US agrees to clean up Agent Orange
US agrees to clean up Agent Orange
The US government has agreed to clean up the residue of the highly toxic defoliant Agent Orange buried below Da Nang Airport in central Vietnam.
The US government has agreed to clean up the residue of the highly toxic defoliant Agent Orange buried below Da Nang Airport in central Vietnam.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Action campaign for AO victims launched
Action campaign for AO victims launched
It is high time there was an in-depth analysis of the damage the US military caused to the environment and Vietnamese people 50 years ago, he said.
He expressed his hopes that the authorities, organizations, Vietnamese people and international friends will continue helping AO victims in their struggle for justice.
It is high time there was an in-depth analysis of the damage the US military caused to the environment and Vietnamese people 50 years ago, he said.
He expressed his hopes that the authorities, organizations, Vietnamese people and international friends will continue helping AO victims in their struggle for justice.
Action campaign for AO victims launched
Action campaign for AO victims launched
It is high time there was an in-depth analysis of the damage the US military caused to the environment and Vietnamese people 50 years ago, he said.
He expressed his hopes that the authorities, organizations, Vietnamese people and international friends will continue helping AO victims in their struggle for justice.
It is high time there was an in-depth analysis of the damage the US military caused to the environment and Vietnamese people 50 years ago, he said.
He expressed his hopes that the authorities, organizations, Vietnamese people and international friends will continue helping AO victims in their struggle for justice.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Australian group seeks justice for AO victims
Australian group seeks justice for AO victims
At the debut ceremony, AOJ launched a campaign to call for assistance to Vietnamese AO/dioxin victims and to urge US chemical companies to clean up the environment and compensate the victims in the Southeast Asian country.
At the debut ceremony, AOJ launched a campaign to call for assistance to Vietnamese AO/dioxin victims and to urge US chemical companies to clean up the environment and compensate the victims in the Southeast Asian country.
Australian group seeks justice for AO victims
Australian group seeks justice for AO victims
At the debut ceremony, AOJ launched a campaign to call for assistance to Vietnamese AO/dioxin victims and to urge US chemical companies to clean up the environment and compensate the victims in the Southeast Asian country.
At the debut ceremony, AOJ launched a campaign to call for assistance to Vietnamese AO/dioxin victims and to urge US chemical companies to clean up the environment and compensate the victims in the Southeast Asian country.
Lasting legacy of Agent Orange
Lasting legacy of Agent Orange
Nothing about latter-day Vietnam, however, is more memorable than a visit to a hospital in Saigon where I saw crippled, deformed people wandering the halls or confined to beds, sentenced for life by the effects of Agent Orange. Some could walk with crutches, canes and walkers, others were curled in weird positions, their faces vacant and twisted, their mouths curled in strange patterns. The most saddening were children and infants, born years after the devastation of the war, doomed to halting existences on the fringes of life, the victims of the chemicals passed on by their parents and in some cases their grandparents. Rows of bottles on display showed the deformed fetuses of those who had lived briefly in their mother’s wombs, their tiny heads distended, their limbs askew.
You have to wonder, as you cringe at the sight of the victims of Agent Orange, about those who concocted this chemical defoliant and then ordered its use. It’s fairly obvious that commanders on the ground were assured it was OK, that it wouldn’t harm people, just plants and flowers and trees, but then you have to ask about the great scientific minds that researched and tested the stuff. Were these minds smart enough to make a crippling chemical but too dumb to imagine it would have an equally terrible impact on fauna as well as flora?
Nothing about latter-day Vietnam, however, is more memorable than a visit to a hospital in Saigon where I saw crippled, deformed people wandering the halls or confined to beds, sentenced for life by the effects of Agent Orange. Some could walk with crutches, canes and walkers, others were curled in weird positions, their faces vacant and twisted, their mouths curled in strange patterns. The most saddening were children and infants, born years after the devastation of the war, doomed to halting existences on the fringes of life, the victims of the chemicals passed on by their parents and in some cases their grandparents. Rows of bottles on display showed the deformed fetuses of those who had lived briefly in their mother’s wombs, their tiny heads distended, their limbs askew.
Can anyone believe, however, that the mad scientists who developed Agent Orange, and another defoliant that I heard about in Vietnam, Agent Blue, did not know the lethal effects of their handiwork? Or, if they told their bosses about it, then what were executives at Dow Chemical and Monsanto Chemical, the two leading manufacturers of the killer liquid, telling their clients in the Pentagon? Were they saying, well, maybe you wouldn’t want to drink the stuff, but actually it’s not all that bad?
You have to wonder, as you cringe at the sight of the victims of Agent Orange, about those who concocted this chemical defoliant and then ordered its use. It’s fairly obvious that commanders on the ground were assured it was OK, that it wouldn’t harm people, just plants and flowers and trees, but then you have to ask about the great scientific minds that researched and tested the stuff. Were these minds smart enough to make a crippling chemical but too dumb to imagine it would have an equally terrible impact on fauna as well as flora?
Lasting legacy of Agent Orange
Lasting legacy of Agent Orange
Nothing about latter-day Vietnam, however, is more memorable than a visit to a hospital in Saigon where I saw crippled, deformed people wandering the halls or confined to beds, sentenced for life by the effects of Agent Orange. Some could walk with crutches, canes and walkers, others were curled in weird positions, their faces vacant and twisted, their mouths curled in strange patterns. The most saddening were children and infants, born years after the devastation of the war, doomed to halting existences on the fringes of life, the victims of the chemicals passed on by their parents and in some cases their grandparents. Rows of bottles on display showed the deformed fetuses of those who had lived briefly in their mother’s wombs, their tiny heads distended, their limbs askew.
You have to wonder, as you cringe at the sight of the victims of Agent Orange, about those who concocted this chemical defoliant and then ordered its use. It’s fairly obvious that commanders on the ground were assured it was OK, that it wouldn’t harm people, just plants and flowers and trees, but then you have to ask about the great scientific minds that researched and tested the stuff. Were these minds smart enough to make a crippling chemical but too dumb to imagine it would have an equally terrible impact on fauna as well as flora?
Nothing about latter-day Vietnam, however, is more memorable than a visit to a hospital in Saigon where I saw crippled, deformed people wandering the halls or confined to beds, sentenced for life by the effects of Agent Orange. Some could walk with crutches, canes and walkers, others were curled in weird positions, their faces vacant and twisted, their mouths curled in strange patterns. The most saddening were children and infants, born years after the devastation of the war, doomed to halting existences on the fringes of life, the victims of the chemicals passed on by their parents and in some cases their grandparents. Rows of bottles on display showed the deformed fetuses of those who had lived briefly in their mother’s wombs, their tiny heads distended, their limbs askew.
Can anyone believe, however, that the mad scientists who developed Agent Orange, and another defoliant that I heard about in Vietnam, Agent Blue, did not know the lethal effects of their handiwork? Or, if they told their bosses about it, then what were executives at Dow Chemical and Monsanto Chemical, the two leading manufacturers of the killer liquid, telling their clients in the Pentagon? Were they saying, well, maybe you wouldn’t want to drink the stuff, but actually it’s not all that bad?
You have to wonder, as you cringe at the sight of the victims of Agent Orange, about those who concocted this chemical defoliant and then ordered its use. It’s fairly obvious that commanders on the ground were assured it was OK, that it wouldn’t harm people, just plants and flowers and trees, but then you have to ask about the great scientific minds that researched and tested the stuff. Were these minds smart enough to make a crippling chemical but too dumb to imagine it would have an equally terrible impact on fauna as well as flora?
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