RaceandHistoryHowComYouComAfrica SpeaksRootsWomenTrinicenter AmonHotep
Rootsie's Blog
Home » Archives » March 2006 » Agent Orange Leaves Stigma Trail

[Previous entry: "Coke 'drinks India dry'"] [Next entry: "World Bank says not withdrawing from Uzbekistan"]


03/19/2006:

"Agent Orange Leaves Stigma Trail"

HANOI - Nguyen Thi Thuy was 22 when she left her village to help build roads for the North Vietnamese army during the war. She remembers crawling into tunnels during the day and covering her mouth with a wet rag when the United States military sprayed the landscape with defoliant.

"I didn't know what it was then, but it was white," she recalled. "The sky and earth were scorched. The earth had lost all its greenery. We didn't know it was Agent Orange at that time."

And now, more than three decades later, an international conference here on Thursday and Friday, will examine the social impacts of the notorious wartime herbicide. Until now, research on the effects of the chemical has focused primarily on science that proves a link between dioxin exposure and numerous diseases.

Coming, as it does, ahead of April's appeal proceedings in New York on a lawsuit brought by Vietnamese victims against the manufacturers of the defoliant, the conference has added relevance.
antiwar.com

Home | Archives

March 2006
SMTWTFS
   1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031 

Articles
Rootsie's Forum
Reasoning Board
Haiti's Coup
Venezuela Watch

Weblogs

Africa Speaks
RootsWomen
Kurt Nimmo


Back to top

Rootsie's Homepage | Forum | Articles | Weblog Homepage

Copyright (c) 2004 Rootsie.com
Rootsie.com at www.rootsie.com grants permission to cross-post original Rootsie.com articles in their entirety on community internet sites, as long as the text and title of the article are not modified. The source must be acknowledged as follows: rootsie.com at www.rootsie.com The active URL hyperlink address of the original article and the author/s copyright note must be clearly displayed. For articles from other sources, check with the original copyright holder, where applicable. For publication of rootsie.com articles in commercial sites, print and other forms, contact us here.
Powered by greymatterforums, Rootsie.com, Trinicenter.com and Rootswomen.com