Agent Orange in Vietnam: an ecocide in search of recognition
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Spraying of Agent Orange by an American plane during the Vietnam War.
UPI / AFP
By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow
50 min
From 1961 to 1971, millions of liters of a herbicide, Agent Orange, was sprayed in the south of the country by the US military during the Vietnam War.
50 years later, the consequences on populations and ecosystems are still dramatic: cancer, malformed children, polluted soil and water ... Tran To Nga, a Franco-Vietnamese victim filed a complaint against 26 American multinationals involved.
The trial opened this week in Paris.
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Guests:
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Tran To Gna
, victim of Agent Orange
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André Bouny
, founder of the International Committee to Support Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange and author of
Agent Orange
: Apocalypse Vietnam,
published by Demi-Lune
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Valérie Cabanes
, lawyer in international law, member of the
Stop ecocide Collective.
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