Vietnam the after-effects of Agent Orange - 3rd generation birth defects

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This isn't really topical I know but I saw a documentary on it last night and felt really shattered by it all, the images of all the disabled children and the problems their families face. By the way, I'm not slagging of the US with this thread. I know that Britain used chemicals in colonial warfare as did Italy in Ethiopia, and many other countries.

I'm just shocked that so little is being done to help the victims poisoned by Agent Orange and all the children being born with severe defects and untreatable skin diseases/cancers. I find it very very sad.

The documentary reported that a small group of Vietnamese had sued the chemical corporation in the US who made Agent Orange to defoliate the rainforest and enable US troops to better detect/destroy the enemy. They've paid out compensation to US veterans whose cancer/health problems seem connected to Agent Orange exposure but they are not making any move to accept responsiblity for the suffering of the contaminated Vietnamese.
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Had to get it off my chest a bit. Terrible to see all those children and how little is being done for them

Actually some of the veterans themselves have tried to raise money to help the victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam but it is an enormous problem. The poison has long entered the food chain and I read that levels exceed 180 million x safe values. How is that ever going to be turned around?

i know i saw a programme about this it's terrible, all bloody chemical warfare is sick

It's appalling. Both the orginal use of Agent Orange and the fact that the victims have been left with no help.

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When you see things like this it's so difficult to understand how waging war is still considered so acceptable a measure. We all know war means deaths and it causes so much damage not only to those killed, maimed, grieving but to the land and for generations to come and yet our govts seem to still consider warfare an acceptable measure for solving political differences. Seems to me we enter into it far too easily

That film really got to me yesterday, in a bit of a foul mood today I think. Better log off for a while

i know how it can get to you, i feel like this whenever i read or see films about this sort of thing. i'm going to have a good read about it later on - some things in the world just seem so dispairing (if that's a word)