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US firms behind Agent Orange stand trial in France
By FRANCOIS BOUGON
Media Part/ Reposted from Wire
The civil complaint targets more than 20 US chemical firms for their part in the production of Agent Orange, massively employed by US forces during the Vietnam War.
In her 2016 autobiography,
Ma terre empoisonnée (My poisoned land), published in France by Stock and co-written with journalist Philippe Broussard, Trân Tô Nga describes herself as “the girl from the Mekong, colonialism and war”. She recounts how, as a young woman in her native Vietnam, she enrolled as a messenger and liaison agent with the communist Viet Cong guerrilla movement engaged in the bitter 20-year war for independence against US imperialism and its allied regime in South Vietnam that would end in victory in 1975.
During the American war in Vietnam, the destructive chemical cocktail was sprayed across the country, affecting large tracts of forest, and millions of Vietnamese for generations.