Vietnam's continuing Agent Orange problem

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Vietnam's war against Agent Orange 

By Tom Fawthrop 
BBC News
June 14, 2004

Cu Chi district, Vietnam  -- The Vietnam War ended in 1975, but the
scourge of dioxin contamination from a herbicide known as Agent Orange
did not. 

"The damage inflicted by Agent Orange is much worse than anybody thought
at the end of the war," said Professor Nguyen Trong Nhan, the
vice-president of the Vietnam Victims of Agent Orange Association
(VAVA). 

Between 1962 and 1970, millions of gallons of Agent Orange were sprayed
across parts of Vietnam. 

Professor Nhan, the former president of the Vietnamese Red Cross,
denounced the action as "a massive violation of human rights of the
civilian population, and a weapon of mass destruction". 

But since the end of the Vietnam War, Washington has denied any moral or
legal responsibility for the toxic legacy said to have been caused by
Agent Orange in Vietnam. 

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for the entire article, see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3798581.stm



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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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