"Agent Orange is much worse than someone the damage inflicted by, at the end of the war thought," said Professor Nguyen trong Nhan, Vice President of the Viet Nam victims of Agent Orange Association (VAVA).
Millions of gallons of Agent Orange parts of Viet Nam were sprayed between 1962 and 1970.
Professor Nhan, former President of the Red Cross, Vietnamese condemned the action as "Massive violation of human rights of the civilian population and a weapon of mass destruction".
But since the Viet Nam war, Washington has refused, no moral or legal responsibility for the toxic legacy said be caused by Agent Orange in Viet Nam.
The legacy of unresolved and U.S. denials of responsibility raised three Vietnamese, unprecedented legal action in January 2004.
The applicants alleged war crimes against Monsanto Corporation, Dow Chemical and eight other companies used Agent Orange and other powerful resources produced in Viet Nam.
The case was by VAVA, was launched, set up an international campaign, justice and compensation for Agent Orange victims win to promote.
Weinstein began preliminary hearings in January in the United States Federal Court in New York, chaired by senior judge Jack.
Birth defects
Agent Orange was developed to defoliate jungle and therefore guerrillas deny Vietcong cover.
There one contained the most virulent poisons known to man, a tribe of dioxin TCCD called.
First it killed the rainforest, stripping bare jungle.
To reach the dioxin spread its toxic to food which some say chain - time then led to a proliferation of birth deformities.
In a small community in the heavily sprayed Cu Chi district battles the family of 21-year-old Tran Anh Kiet with the problems of everyday life.
His feet, hands and limbs are twisted and verformt.Er writhes obviously frustrated, and his attempts to speech are limited to applicant and pathetic grunt.
Kiet has less sein.Er stunted body of a 15-year-old, is an adult with a mental age of approximately six plug.
It is what the local villagers called an agent orange baby.
Viet Nam has 150,000 other kids as he whose Geburtsfehler - according to the Vietnamese Red Cross records - easily can be traced back Agent Orange exposure their parents during the war, or the use of dioxin contaminated food and water since 1975.
VAVA estimates that 3 million were Vietnamese during the war, exposed to the chemical, and suffer at least one million serious health problems today.
War veterans exposed to the chemical clouds waren.Viele are some farmers that the besprüht.Andere are lived from country a second and third generation of their parents exposure affected.
Some of these victims living in the vicinity of the former U.S. military bases, such as bien Hoa stored Agent Orange in large quantities.
Dr. Arnold Schecter, a leading expert in dioxin contamination in the United States, sample the ground it in 2003, and it found containing TCCD levels 180 million copies over the secure level were set by the U.S. environmental protection agency.
Calls for US help
Professor Nhan is sadly disappointed about the response of the United States into calls to the Vietnamese suffering to help.
"Viet Nam the problem cannot alone solve. Hanoi the U.S. military helped remains of MIAs (missing U.S. soldiers in action) track, and we asked you, respond with humanitarian aid for victims of Agent Orange", he said.
Approximately 10,000 U.S. veterans who exposed to Agent Orange receive disability benefits for different types of cancer and other serious health problems associated with dioxin.
"American victims get from Agent Orange up to $1500 per Monat.jedoch most get Vietnamese families affected around 80,000 Dong per month (just over $5 dollars) in government support for each disabled child", said Professor Nhan.
When former President Bill Clinton Hanoi four years ago visited, Vietnamese President has Tran Duc long a call to the United States "to recognize their responsibility and de mine, former military bases and assistance for victims of Agent Orange to detoxify".
But Washington offered nothing on the financing of scientific conferences and further research.
Chuck Searcy, Vice President of Viet Nam Veterans Memorial Fund based in Hanoi, said: "I am amazed that the United States is not even a small gesture of cooperation and support of the Vietnamese beyond the endless talk about scientific research via.Metro offered such a move would eliminate the talk of war crimes liability or victim complaints."
The Vietnamese legal battle against formidable U.S. corporate opponents is heard in the same court as the previous action of American war veterans.
It throws US companies knowingly permitting Agent Orange for military purposes in violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibiting of the use of chemical and biological agents are sprayed.
But the legal team representing hope Monsanto and other U.S. companies go the case to court to stop.
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