CNDP Demands Justice for Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange

CNDP Demands Justice for Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange 

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first use of Agent

Orange and other herbicides on Vietnam that falls on 10 August

2011, the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP)

expresses its unqualified support to the appeal issued by the

Vietnam Association for the Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin

(VAVA).

The indiscriminate and wide-spread spraying of nearly 80 million

liters of dioxin-laced "Agent Orange" and other herbicides from

1961 to 1971 had wrecked havoc in Vietnam by destroying over

3 million hectares of forests, mangroves and cultivable land and

rendering over 3 million Vietnamese people crippled and disease-

stricken. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of such victims

have died in agonizing circumstances and hundreds of thousands

of their progenies were born with unimaginable birth defects. The

Agent Orange victims are a living example of the long-lasting and

horrendous effects of chemical warfare.

The United States Government, which is guilty of conducting

chemical warfare in Vietnam, has to be held accountable for

committing this horrendous war crime against the Vietnamese

people and has to be brought to justice. The U.S. Government

and the chemical companies – Dow, Monsanto, etc., which

had manufactured and supplied the toxic chemicals – must be

compelled to pay adequate compensation to all the victims of

"Agent Orange" and held responsible for remediation of the dioxin-

contaminated land and water bodies in Vietnam.

The CNDP expresses its full support to the just demands of the victims

of "Agent Orange" and, hereby, assures them that it will do all it

can to rally the support of the Government and people of India

and as well as of concerned people elsewhere in the quest of the

Vietnamese people for justice.

N. D. Jayaprakash

Achin Vanaik

J. Sri Raman

Sukla Sen

Anil Chaudhary

6 August 2011

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