| From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
| Date: | Tue, 5 Nov 2019 19:45:45 -0800 (PST) |
| Reply: | cpeo-military |
| Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] HERBICIDES, GLOBAL: "Agent Orange Still a Major Concern for Vietnam" |
Agent Orange Still a Major Concern for Vietnam By Ha Nguyen Voice of America November 5, 2019 HO CHI MINH CITY - Vietnam has handed over an area of land to its former war enemy the U.S., but this time the two sides aren’t fighting across an old battlefield, but working together to fight what lies beneath. What lies beneath are the remnants of Agent Orange, the chemical that U.S. forces sprayed across this country to destroy tree cover in the Vietnam War. Now Vietnam is handing over 37 hectares of land outside Ho Chi Minh City to the U.S. temporarily to remove the chemical, which has been linked to cancer and other diseases, birth defects, and environmental destruction. Officials from both nations participated in an official handover ceremony Friday in Hanoi, before starting on the clean-up project in southern Bien Hoa city. … For the entire article, see https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/agent-orange-still-major-concern-vietnam -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight A project of the Pacific Studies Center LSiegel@cpeo.org P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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