Agent Orange selling firms accused of harm to Vietnamese civilian
Fourteen multinational companies went on trial in France yesterday accused of causing grievous harm to a French-Vietnamese woman by selling Agent Orange to the US whose military used millions of tonnes of the toxic chemical in the Vietnam War. Lawyers for the plaintiff have hailed the trial as potentially “historic” as a guilty verdict would be the first time a Vietnamese civilian was deemed a victim of the defoliant. As part of American’s Ranch Hand military campaign to halt the advance of North Vietnamese troops, the US military sprayed an estimated 20 million gallons of Agent Orange ...