The World Peace Council (W.P.C.) is underlining 56 years from the start of the dirty imperialist war of the U.S.A. against the Vietnamese people the need for comprehensive and overall compensation of the victims of the toxic ‘Agent Orange’, their relief and overall support. The U.S. administrations all these years never acknowledged their heavy responsibility towards a people and a country which fought with dignity for its freedom and the right to determine alone its fortunes.
As for bombs and ammunition alone, the U.S.A. dropped over Vietnam about 14 million tons of all kinds of bombs (while another 3 million tons in Laos). This is twice as large as the total tonnage of all bombs and ammunition dropped in the World War II, and equivalent to total power of two hundred atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now, 42 years after the war, everyday, unexploded ordinance still kills an average of 1,500 Vietnamese a year (and 300 Laotian people). Most of these victims are mountainous people and children.
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42 years after the end of the U.S. war in Vietnam the consequences of war are still visible at thousands of children being born with mental diseases and birth defects. This shameful chapter, the use of the chemical dioxin by the U.S.A. continues to poison Vietnam and the people exposed to the chemicals. The deadly mark left by ‘Agent Orange’ on the natural environment of Vietnam includes the destruction of mangrove forests and the long-term poisoning of soil, especially in the known “hot spots” near former U.S. military bases.
The WPC expresses its full-hearted solidarity to the Vietnamese people and in particular with the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange (VAVA), and demands the recognition of the responsibility by the U.S. administration and the necessary steps and measures to support the victims and their families.
We call upon our members and friends in the world, not to give up raising and fighting for this just matter of the Vietnamese people, which fought heroically and defeated the U.S. imperialist aggression in 1975.
August 10th, 2017
The Secretariat of WPC
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