Ruby Ngo
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[Poll] 1 000 000 votes for Orange Agent Victim in Vietnam Campaign
August 19, 2009 - 05:05 AM
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Agent Orange is the code name for a herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military in its Herbicidal Warfare program during the Vietnam War. More than 21,000,000 US gallons (79,000,000 L) of Agent Orange were sprayed across South Vietnam.
According to the post-war Vietnamese government, 4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400,000 deaths and disabilities, and 500,000 children born with birth defects.
From 1961 to 1971, Agent Orange was by far the most widely used of the so-called "Rainbow Herbicides" employed in the herbicidal warfare program. During the production of Agent Orange (as well as Agents Purple, Pink, and Green)dioxins were produced as a contaminant, which have caused health problems for those exposed during the Vietnam War. Agents Blue and White were part of the same program but did not contain dioxins.
The lawsuit by the Vietnamese seeks to hold accountable the chemical companies who manufactured and supplied Agent Orange to the government. Contrary to government specifications, the product supplied to the government contained an excessive and avoidable amount of poison in it. That poison was dioxin. It was present in the herbicides supplied to the government only because these chemical companies deliberately and consciously chose to ignore then existing industry standards and produce a herbicide thata contained excessive and avoidable amounts of dioxin in it. The presence of the poison dioxin had no military necessity. It was present only because of the greed of the chemical companies. They knew that the more herbicide they produced the more money they would make and the faster they produced it the more they could sell to the government. In order to maximize their profits, these companies ignored industry standards to prevent the byproduct of dioxin from being in the herbicide.
It is this conduct which violated international law and for which the Vietnamese now seek to hold these chemical companies liable for in federal court. It is this conduct that violated universal and specific prohibitions recognized as part of customary international law at the time of the Viet Nam war which prohibited the use of poison as a weapon of war or the use of the dioxin laced Agent Orange because it was intended to and did caused unnecessary and excessive suffering without any military necessity.
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