[Mb-civic] Truthout.org - Vietnam War Victims of Agent Orange Poisoning Sue U.S. Chemical Companies

[Jonathon Johnson]

Vietnam War Victims of Agent Orange Poisoning Sue U.S. Chemical Companies 
    By Andrew Buncombe 
    The Independent U.K. 
    Friday 04 March 2005 
    Vietnamese citizens who say they have suffered a lifetime of health problems after being poisoned by Agent Orange during the Vietnam War are suing the American chemical companies that provided the Pentagon with the toxic defoliant. 
    The case has huge implications. If successful it could open the way for claims against companies that produce weapons such as depleted uranium-tipped munitions, which have been strongly linked to cancer. 
    In the lawsuit filed this week, it was alleged that up to four million Vietnamese suffered persistent respiratory and reproductive problems as a result of being contaminated by Agent Orange. They are seeking compensation that could run to billions of dollars from 30 companies, such as Dow Chemical and Monsanto. One of the plaintiffs, Dr Phan Thi Phi Phi, told the court in New York she had worked in an area that was heavily sprayed with the defoliant and suffered four miscarriages during the early 1970s. "We did not know what happened to us, what was the cause of it, so we were very sad because we had so many miscarriages and we could not have children," she said. 
    US forces routinely sprayed the defoliant to clear areas of jungle where they believed Communist forces were hiding, and to destroy their crops. 

Find the complete article at: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030405M.shtml

 



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