Agent Orange/Dioxin victims in Vietnam (Illustrative photo: VNA) HCMCity (VNA) – Major General Tran Ngoc Tho, former Chief of Staff ofMilitary Region 7, sent a letter on April 16 to US courts to demand theresumption of the lawsuit filed by Vietnamesevictims of Agent Orange (AO) in2004 against 37 US chemical firms,including Monsanto and Dow Chemical.
In the letter, Tho, who is now Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Association for Victims of AgentOrange/Dioxin (VAVA) and Chairman of the VAVA chapter inHo Chi Minh City, said the US court’s recent rulingon Monsanto is further proof showing that the firm’s Roundup herbicide has adirect impact on the human body.
Previously, on March 19, the San Francisco court concluded that this herbicidehas been a key cause of cancer for Edwin Hardeman, a resident in California,and required Monsanto to pay a total ofnearly 81 million USD to the plaintiff.
In August 2018, the San Francisco court also ruled thatMonsanto had to pay 289 million USD to Dewayne Johnson after he developed cancerfrom long-term exposure to the Roundup and Ranger Pro herbicides produced bythe firm.
Tho stressed in the letter that Vietnamese AO victims require US chemical companiesthat provided herbicides to the US troops during the war to be responsible forhelping, supporting, and overcoming the consequences caused by the chemicaldamage to Vietnamese people and the environment.
Reiterating the claim of Vietnamese victims denied by the US federal court ongrounds of insufficient grounds, Tho said that scientific studies and livingwitnesses whose lives were destroyed and affected by the toxic chemical inVietnam are the most convincing evidence.
International and Vietnamese scientists conducted manypractical tests and had direct contact with witnesses, and made verification activitiesat Bien Hoa, Phu Cat, Chu Lai, and Da Nang airports to support detoxificationand cleaning the environment there, the letter added. –VNA
In the letter, Tho, who is now Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Association for Victims of AgentOrange/Dioxin (VAVA) and Chairman of the VAVA chapter inHo Chi Minh City, said the US court’s recent rulingon Monsanto is further proof showing that the firm’s Roundup herbicide has adirect impact on the human body.
Previously, on March 19, the San Francisco court concluded that this herbicidehas been a key cause of cancer for Edwin Hardeman, a resident in California,and required Monsanto to pay a total ofnearly 81 million USD to the plaintiff.
In August 2018, the San Francisco court also ruled thatMonsanto had to pay 289 million USD to Dewayne Johnson after he developed cancerfrom long-term exposure to the Roundup and Ranger Pro herbicides produced bythe firm.
Tho stressed in the letter that Vietnamese AO victims require US chemical companiesthat provided herbicides to the US troops during the war to be responsible forhelping, supporting, and overcoming the consequences caused by the chemicaldamage to Vietnamese people and the environment.
Reiterating the claim of Vietnamese victims denied by the US federal court ongrounds of insufficient grounds, Tho said that scientific studies and livingwitnesses whose lives were destroyed and affected by the toxic chemical inVietnam are the most convincing evidence.
International and Vietnamese scientists conducted manypractical tests and had direct contact with witnesses, and made verification activitiesat Bien Hoa, Phu Cat, Chu Lai, and Da Nang airports to support detoxificationand cleaning the environment there, the letter added. –VNA
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