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The war does not end when the bombs stopped falling and the war
ended. The destruction continued long after that, in the soil and in
the mind and body of the people affected.
Today, three million
Vietnamese suffer effects of the substance as a chemical leaves were
used by the United States during the Vietnam war. To refuse food and
protection to those considered "enemies", America's
deciduous forest with the deadly chemical agent orange, white, green,
pink, blue and purple. Agent Orange, in which small amounts of TCDD
dioxin-infected-the most toxic chemicals known to science-wounded and
sick civilians and their children for generations on two
continents.
In addition to the million Vietnamese are still
affected by this deadly poison, tens of thousands of U.s. soldiers are
also affected. It was causing birth defects in hundreds of thousands
of children in Vietnam and the United States-that is, the second and
third generations of people who have been exposed to Agent Orange
decades ago. Medical evidence showed that the number of cancers (e.g.,
soft tissue Hodgkin Lymphoma), diabetes (type II), and in children of
spina bifida and other birth defects, is due to the exposure.
The
signs of danger left by Agent Orange for Vietnam's natural environment
includes the destruction of mangrove forests and long-term toxicity of
soils and crops.
Surviving veterans of Vietnam to the United
States, after years of organized activities, have achieved limited
compensation from our Government for a number of diseases that they
suffered because of Agent Orange poisoning. While this struggle
continues, three million Vietnamese victims survivors do not receive
compensation as such, nor any humanitarian aid from the u.s.
Government.
Our Government has a moral and legal obligation,
under international law, to compensate the people of Vietnam for the
devastating effects of Agent Orange, and to help reduce its effects.
Indeed, the u.s. Government recognizes this responsibility: in the
peace accords signed in Paris in 1973 Richard Nixon's administration
has promised to contribute $ 3 billion to heal the wounds of war, and
the post-war reconstruction of the country.
However, 30 years
after the end of the Vietnam war, our Government has not made a formal
commitment to good and moral obligation to support the Vietnam
people's recovery from chemical warfare waged against them and their
land. There it meets its responsibilities to the peoples of Laos and
Cambodia, where the soil has also been poisoned by chemical
weapons.
Our focus is to achieve justice for the victims of Agent
Orange in Vietnam. We are also interested in the fact that our
Government has continued to use chemical weapons, including depleted
uranium and napalm, in Iraq and elsewhere. Therefore, our action is
part of an international campaign on ending the use of poisonous
weapons and to achieve justice and accountability for all the
victims.
The Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and responsibility
campaign is an initiative of the American Veterans,
Vietnamese-Americans and all concerned about peace and justice.
Vietnamese citizens have filed a lawsuit to keep the chemical company
responsible for the crimes against humanity of which their product is
a part. We turn now to the action: With this campaign, we seek to
fulfill our responsibility by asserting that our Governments respect
the moral and legal responsibility to compensate the victims of Agent
Orange in Vietnam.
Let's together build a better childhood world.
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