Vietnam Red Cross donates VND5 billion to Agent Orange Victims

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http://www.vov.org.vn/2004_12_14/english/xahoi.htm

The Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) on Monday handed over VND3.5 billion to its chapters in 16 provinces and cities in the central region, Central Highlands and Mekong Delta.

The sum will be used to build more than 100 houses, vocational training centres and maternity wards, and buy 250 cows, pigs and goats to help Agent Orange victims.

An additional VND1.5 billion will be donated to the Vietnam Agent Orange Victims Association (VAVA) to assist victims involved in the lawsuit against US chemical firms.

The lawsuit was first filed by three Vietnamese dioxin victims, and accused 36 US companies of producing and supplying the toxic defoliant used by the US army in Vietnam between 1961 and 1971.

More than 2 million Vietnamese continue to suffer from diseases linked to Agent Orange.

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[riverwalker]

1. heartbreaking

Found this other article on the lawsuits. I know Monsanto and Dow are two of the 36 corporations, I wonder who the others are.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11638

[diamond14]

2. bush* upped the anti for Iraq..... DEPLETED URANIUM

bush* has conducted a RADIOACTIVE war against Iraq...depositing DEPLETED URANIUM all over the country.....


and the effects on OUR soldiers should also be mentioned as BLOWBACK...so many of OUR soldiers were damaged and their offspring too...this suffering goes on and on....

at least there is some hope for America's Agent Orange victims...


for America's Depleted Uranium victims in Iraq...the radiation is the toxin that NEVER stops destroying....both for Iraq and for OUR SOLDIERS and their families