Fifty years on, the nightmare is very real.
“I am expecting the poison that has deformed me to continue disabling future generations in Bien Hoa,” Loan said.
“Given the international acceptance of dioxin being a significant human carcinogen, this, in the eyes of any ‘reasonable’ human being, should be enough to spur remedial action regardless of the so-called lack of a scientific link between exposure and specific health effects.”
“Decades of advancing a wall of denials and obfuscations by the US now appear to be crumbling slowly in the acceptance of significant responsibility for their actions during the conflict… Help for cleanup of Da Nang has come, and I fully expect help will be forthcoming for Bien Hoa and Phu Cat,” Dwernychuk said.
“If I had a chance to speak with President Obama and the companies that manufactured Agent Orange, I would ask them to redress the agonies of Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange,” Loan said. “They have been bearing the brunt of a terrible crime that all people with conscience would strongly protest.”
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