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US Firms Behind Agent Orange Stand Trial In France

February 11, 2021 François Bougon, Progressive International. , , ,
The civil complaint targets more than 20 US chemical firms for their part in the production of Agent Orange, massively employed by US forces during the Vietnam War. In her 2016 autobiography, Ma terre empoisonnée (My poisoned land), published in France by Stock and co-written with journalist Philippe Broussard, Trân Tô Nga describes herself as “the girl from the Mekong, colonialism and war”. She recounts how, as a young woman in her native Vietnam, she enrolled as a messenger and liaison agent with the communist Viet Cong guerrilla movement engaged in the bitter 20-year war for independence against US imperialism and its allied regime in South Vietnam that would end in victory in 1975.

Vietnam To Pressure Monsanto Over Agent Orange Victims

August 26, 2018 Sustainable Pulse. , , ,
Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry has stated that they will re-visit legal channels in an attempt to receive damages for over one million people, from a group of chemical companies including Monsanto and Dow Chemical, which produced the deadly herbicide Agent Orange for the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. The Foreign Ministry announcement came as a direct result of the legal precedent set by the landmark cancer trial verdict in San Francisco on August 10, in which Monsanto was ordered to pay over USD 289 Million in total damages to the former school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson...