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Vietnam Orange

Though the American war in Viêt Nam has been over for almost 30 years, hundreds of thousands of innocent children still suffer horrific, painfully sad birth deformities and other illnesses, as the effects of Agent Orange defoliant used by Americans enters a third generation.

Between 1962 and 1971, the US employed chemical weapons by spraying more than 75 million litres of defoliants, containing almost 375 pounds of dioxin - the most dangerous chemical known to man - over massive areas of southern Viêt Nam. The chemical defoliant's main purpose was to destroy Viêt Nam's dense tropical foliage and mountain jungles that served as excellent cover for the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Viêt Cong. It was also used to clear L.Z.'s, or helicopter landing zones and to push back concealing foliage around air bases, army posts and roads, as well as to destroy croplands potentially used by enemy forces and to compel farmers to leave their homes for concentration camps, or pacified areas ...

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