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Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange
Meet U.S. Veterans of War in Vietnam
Veterans Vow to Fight for Justice
for Vietnam’s Agent Orange Survivors!
On November 30, 2005, 6:00pm, at Roosevelt University, a delegation
of Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange will meet for the first
time with U.S. veterans also suffering from the wounds they sustained
in the war in Vietnam.
More than 30 years after the end of the U.S. war that killed
more than 58,000 Americans and 3 million Vietnamese, U.S. veterans
are demanding compensation for their Vietnamese counterparts.
U.S. veterans received partial compensation for their injuries
from the chemical companies and the U.S. government but Vietnamese
veterans received not one penny from the U.S. government which
sprayed them to Agent Orange.
- Three million Vietnamese
and tens of thousand of U.S. soldiers are affected by Agent
Orange
- Agent Orange causes
birth defects in hundreds of thousands of children.
- Agent Orange continues
to poison the natural environment, soil and crops of Vietnam.
The members of the delegation who will meet with U.S. veterans
are:
- Đặng Thị Hồng Nhựt
who suffered multiple miscarriages due to Agent Orange
- Hồ Sỹ Hải who suffers
from chronic hepatitis, ulcer, enterolitis, unstable blood pressure,
and prostate cancer after being exposed to Agent Orange
- Nguyễn Mười. the
son of an ARVN veteran suffers from spina bifida as a result
of his father’s exposure to dioxin
- Dr. Nguyễn Trọng
Nhân, Former President of the Vietnam Red Cross, representing
the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin.
Vietnamese and U.S. agent orange victims will share their personal
experiences and their efforts to gain compensation for their and
their children’s injuries. They will meet with Iraq veterans and
others suffering from chemical weapons.
The visit of the Vietnamese Agent Orange victims is part of a
national 10 city speaking tour.
The sponsor, Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility
Campaign, is supporting the lawsuit of Agent Orange victims against
U.S. chemical manufacturers and will lobby the U.S. government
to provide compensation for Vietnamese Agent Orange survivors.
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