[CPEO-MEF] Vietnames sue Monsanto for Agent Orange

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Agent Orange Victims Sue Monsanto

by Tom Fawthrop,
CorpWatch
November 4, 2004

Tran Anh Kiet's feet, hands and limbs are twisted and deformed. He is 21
years old, but trapped inside a body that appears to belong to a 15 year
old with a mental age of around six. He has to be spoon-fed and writhes
often in evident frustration. All his attempts at speech are confined to
plaintive and pitiful grunts.

In Kiet's small community in Cu Chi district, about 45 kilometers from
Ho Chi Minh city, south Vietnam, his story is all too common - indeed
the villagers have a name for young people like him: Agent Orange babies.

Some 79 million liters of Agent Orange herbicides were dropped on the
jungles of Vietnam from 1961-1971 in an attempt to defoliate the
rainforest and deny any cover for the VietCong guerilla forces resisting
the United States occupation of Vietnam.

Today in Vietnam there are 150,000 other children like Kiet, whose
parents allege their birth defects are the result of exposure to Agent
Orange during the war, or the consumption of dioxin-contaminated food
and water since 1975.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11638

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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