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Aug 2, 2011 · Agent Orange was a powerful herbicide used by U.S. military forces during the Vietnam War to eliminate forest cover and crops for North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. The U.S. program,...
In 2008, Australian researcher Jean Williams claimed that cancer rates in Innisfail, Queensland, were 10 times higher than the state average because of secret testing of Agent Orange by the Australian military scientists during the Vietnam War.
Jan 25, 2021 · A French court is set to hear a landmark case against more than a dozen companies that supplied the US with the notorious chemical Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.
Nov 16, 2020 · Agent Orange defoliation operations by the U.S. were not limited to Vietnam, either, but were also conducted in Korea in the demilitarized zone (DMZ). From 1968 to 1969, over 220,000 liters of Agent Orange were sprayed over some 8500 hectares of Korean land near the DMZ, affecting an estimated 4,000 U.S. and 30,000 Korean soldiers.30
Oct 4, 2017 · More than 10 years of U.S. chemical warfare in Vietnam exposed an estimated 2.1 to 4.8 million Vietnamese people to Agent Orange. More than 40 years on, the impact on their health has been...
By supplying Agent Orange to the U.S. government, plaintiffs claimed that defendants were complicit in, or aided and abetted, these war crimes. Defendants sought to dismiss the claims on several bases.
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Aug 3, 2013 · Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, . xvi + pages. $ . (paper). DAVID ZIERLER
