Agent Orange victims send 3,000 petitions to the US

The Vietnam Society for Agent Orange/Dioxin Victims have sent nearly 3,000 letters of petitions written by Agent Orange victims nationwide to American Professor Kenneth J. Herrmann, Director of the SUNY Brockport Vietnam Programme.

The professor will take the petitions to the US to call for public support for Vietnamese Agent Orange victims, and especially for their lawsuit against US chemical companies that produced and supplied the toxic chemicals used by US troops during the war in Vietnam.

Of the petitions, 2,345 come from Thai Binh, the province that has the most Agent Orange victims. Others are from Ha Tay Province, Hanoi, Ninh Binh Province, Haiphong city, etc.

Most of the petitions point out the state and situation of exposure and the diseases Agent Orange victims are suffering and ask for compensation from US chemicals companies.

                                                                                                      Nhan dan, August 6, 2004