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Agent
Orange in the News:
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 Through
the Forest, a Clearer View of the Needs of a People
New
York Times - By Christie Aschwanden Published: September 18,
2007. A LUOI VALLEY,
Vietnam — Phung Tuu Boi reaches down to inspect one
of the spiny shrubs lined up in a row before him. A few feet
away, a cow grazes serenely in this emerald valley in the
hills of central Vietnam.
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End Vietnam’s Air War : Agent Orange Victims have
waited too long for Justice -
Danielle Trussoni, New
York Times June 17, 2007
IN the
spring of 1999 I went to Vietnam. I was a tourist,
though my trip was not a post-college vacation involving
tanning oil and beach chairs and oozing hangovers
suffered under the shade of palm trees. I traveled to
Vietnam as the daughter of a veteran, a man who had
spent a lifetime dealing with his experiences in the
war. Making the journey to Vietnam was important for me,
but at the time I couldn’t quite formulate how.
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 The Last Battle of Vietnam
Time Magazine, March 12, 2007
by Walter Issacson.
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.
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 The
Vietnam Syndrome -
Vanity Fair's August
2006. Photos by James Natchwey, article by
Christopher Hitchens. To be writing these words. is for
me, to undergo the severest test of my core belief - that
sentences can be more powerful than pictures.
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By
Anthony Faiola
in the Washington Post
Monday, November 13, 2006; Page A01. DA NANG, Vietnam
-- For a stark reminder of the Vietnam War, people living
near the airport in this central industrial city can still
stroll along the old stone walls that once surrounded a U.S.
military base. But Luu Thi Nguyen, a 31-year-old homemaker,
needs only to look into the face of her young daughter.
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Accompanying the Washington Post article are two videos
on Agent Orange by
Travis Fox
 Agent Orange Preys on Vietnam
Decades Later. San Jose Mercury News, November
21, 2006. By Kim Oanh.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - Dang Hong Nhut
smiles broadly when she speaks about her firstborn, a
son she describes as tall and handsome, born before
American combat in Vietnam intensified. Her face
wrinkles up in revulsion when conversation turns to her
other child, who died years ago in her womb three months
before full term.
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 Agent Orange's Bitter Harvest
Science Magazine
12 January 2007:
by Richard Stone
HANOI--New
findings paint a more sinister picture of the Vietnam War
herbicide; scientists are trying to revive an epic study of
its effects on U.S. veterans and clarify its legacy in
Vietnam.
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Video and Podcast interviews:
The
Legacy of Chemical War: Vietnam
and Agent Orange - Pod cast interview with Diane Fox,
Coordinator of WLP's Agent Orange Education Project. National
Catholic Reporter - June 1, 2007.
Agent Orange Vietnam's Lasting Legacy - on PBS Foreign
Exchange Episode 322 (June 3-4, 2007) by Christie Aschwanden and
George Lerner (film clip starts at min 16)
Also see the
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for other videos from their
trip to Vietnam.
NPR
Weekend Edition Saturday,
November 18, 2006 · One of the
issues discussed when President Bush visited Vietnam this
week was the long-term effect of the chemical defoliant
Agent Orange. The Vietnamese say there are some 1 million
people who have suffered health problems resulting from U.S.
use of the chemical during the war.
The Legacy of Agent Orange
- By Dave
Kattenburg EarthDoc - Earth Chronicles
Productions. December 11, 2007.
"I remember
watching Walter Cronkite report on the U.S. defoliation of
Vietnam's forests. Enemy forces were hiding in the woods, he
explained, as images of herbicide dusters swooping over
Vietnamese jungle flickered on my TV screen. Agent Orange
couldn't be good for people's health, I thought. I was
right."
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US Policy regarding Agent
Orange:
Agent Orange Still Haunts Vietnam, US - Ben Stocking -
AP June 14, 2007
Vietnam to clean dioxin in hot spots
Thanh Nien -
July 19,2006
US Says
Willing to Do More on Dioxin in Vietnam
(Reuters, June, 6,
2006)
HANOI
- The United States is prepared to do more scientific work
with Vietnam on the impacts of wartime poisoning of
Vietnamese with dioxin, a military official said on Monday
during a visit by US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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US Won't
Compensate Vietnam's Agent Orange Victims: Official
(AFP, June 5, 2006)
The United States won't compensate Vietnam's Agent Orange
victims but will offer advice on dealing with the wartime
defoliant, a US official said during a visit by Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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Dioxin in Vietnam: Fighting a Legacy of War
Environmental
Health Perspectives,
March, 2001
by Susan M. Booker. Singapore was the site of an East--West
convergence over the week of 27 November-1 December 2000. At
the behest of their respective governments, scientists from
the United States and Vietnam came together for what
promises to be the first of many meetings.
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News about the Vietnamese
Agent Orange Lawsuit
Vietnam Association of
Victims of Agent Orange Conference - March 28-29, 2006:
Agent Orange
victims, activists testify from around the world Vietnam
News Agency March 29, 2006
At Agent
Orange conference, a plea to U.S. AP March 29, 2006
U.S.
must act for Agent Orange victims, veterans say Reuters
March 29, 2006
Agent Orange
meeting ends with calls on US chemical cos to compensate
victims AFX March 29, 2006
Agent
Orange Victims Gather to Seek Justice Reuters - March 28,
2006
Veterans in
Vietnam for Agent Orange meeting AFP March - 28, 2006
Vietnam War victims to sue US chemical companies Xinhua
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March 28, 2006
Agent Orange
victims demand justice for toxic damage AFP - March 28,
2006
Vietnam
conference urges compensation for Agent Orange victims
Deutsche Presse-Agentur - March 28, 2006
Vietnam War
veterans, activists speak out about Agent Orange AP
- March 28, 2006
Three decades later, Agent Orange still ravages Vietnam, GIs
May 13, 2006 -
Tim
Wheeler People's Weekly World
One World.net Lawsuit page:
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Stories about the
Vietnamese
The Legacy of Agent Orange: Children are the new victims of
the Vietnam War - OhmyNews November, 18, 2006
by Ludwig De
Braeckeleer
Agent Orange: the legacy of a weapon of mass destruction
The Independent March 31,
2006
Agent Orange
Victims Speak Out Albuquerque Journal North Dec 4,
2005
Vietnamese AO
victims garner more support from American vets
Nhan Dan, Nov 29, 2005
Vietnamese,
Americans highlight plight of Agent Orange victims
AFP - Nov. 29, 2005
Vietnam Agent
Orange victims further campaign in Washington Thanh
Nien - Nov. 28, 2005
Because of
lingering effects of Agent Orange exposure, Vietnamese
plead for redress New York Newday - November 17.
2005
Vietnamese aided on war poison claim
Chicago Tribune
- November 25, 2005
French Prof supports labs for dioxin damage Tuoi Tre,
November 25, 2005
Vietnamese-American director shows AO victims now
Vietnamnet Oct. 10, 2005
The legacy of Agent Orange, BBC May 29, 2005
Falling Leaves, Broken Lives By Edward Tick,
Published in Utne Reader, January/February 2005
Return to Vietnam (Pt. 5): Friendship Village (KTUU
News - Alaska, February 9, 2005)
US
Veterans
Veterans
Exposed To Agent Orange Have Higher Rates Of Prostate Cancer
Recurrence
Medical News Today – Health
News
21 May 2007
The study was funded by the Georgia Cancer
Coalition and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Veterans
exposed to Agent Orange have a 48 percent increased risk of
prostate cancer recurrence following surgery than their
unexposed peers, and when the disease comes back, it seems
more aggressive, researchers say.
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Cancer risk increased for Vietnam vets who
didn't spray Agent Orange -
Obesity, Fitness & Wellness
Week, May 14, 2005.
Even Vietnam
veterans who were not involved in spraying Agent Orange
experienced higher levels of dioxin contamination, which is
linked to an increased overall risk of cancer, reports a new
study.
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Australian
and New Zealand
Agent Orange Causes Genetic Disturbance in New Zealand
Vietnam War Veterans
(4/23/2007)-New Zealand
Karger Medical And Scientific Publishers A
study published in the journal "Cytogenetic and Genome
Research" shows that exposure to Agent Orange, and other
defoliants, has led to genetic disturbance in New Zealand
Vietnam War veterans which continues to persist decades
after their service.
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Korean
Veterans
S. Korean
Vietnam War veterans still haunted by Agent Orange -
Yonhap (South Korea)
- Feb. 15, 2006
Philip Jones Griffiths
Exhibit
Agent Orange
discoverer tries to make amends - CT Post On-line
Dec 11, 2005
Collateral Damage
Fairfield County Weekly Dec. 1,
2005
Cambodia and Laos
Agent Orange Legacy
- Cambodia Daily - March 20-21,
2004
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 August
10, 2004
Members of the Sambhavna Trust Clinic and a large
number of their supporters held a vigil at Roshanpura Square today
in support of the victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam. The Vietnamese
victims of Agent Orange have declared August 10th, the first day
that the US army sprayed chemicals over Vietnam, as the Vietnam Day
for Agent Orange Victims. Holding candles and carrying pictures of
Vietnamese victims, members of Sambhavna collected signatures on a
global petition in solidarity with the Vietnam Association of
Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin. The petition is in support of the
class action lawsuit filed by the Vietnamese victims in the US
federal court. The suit seeks compensation from Dow Chemical and 36
other American chemical companies, which produced Agent Orange for
the US army. Dow Chemical Company is the present owner of Union
Carbide Corporation that caused the gas disaster in Bhopal in
December 1984. From 1961 to 1971, during its invasion of Vietnam,
the US army sprayed 79 million litres of Agent Orange and other
defoliants to destroy over 3 million hectares of forests in southern
Viet Nam. Agent Orange contained a high content of toxic dioxin,
which caused genetic changes, cancer and deformities in the affected
victims and their children and grandchildren. Of the 3 million
victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam over 50, 000 have died of cancer
and other diseases caused by exposure to Dioxin. Currently there are
50 thousand Vietnamese children with cleft lip, missing or shortened
limbs, paralysis and other birth deformities. The Sambhavna Trust
clinic provides free medical care to the survivors of the December
'84 gas disaster as well as to the residents of the communities
affected by ground water contamination by Union Carbide.
Satinath Sarangi
Managing Trustee
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