The Swiss Labor Party has affirmed its deep solidarity with Trân Tô Nga and all the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange / dioxin.
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Trân Tô Nga, a Franco-Vietnamese journalist.
Photo : Toan Tri/VNA/CVN |
Monday, May 10, a court in Paris said it was incompetent to deal with the case of Franco-Vietnamese septuagenarian Trân Tô Nga against 14 firms including Dow Chemical Corporation and Bayer (Monsanto).
In a statement released Tuesday, May 11, the Swiss Labor Party stressed that it was unacceptable that after decades, none of those responsible for the war that destroyed Vietnam’s environment, ecosystems had been punished. The Trân Tô Nga trial is a great opportunity to bring justice to the victims, helping to alleviate some of their pain from the war.
After the decision of the French court, Trân Tô Nga affirmed that she would continue the fight for the Vietnamese victims of agent orange / dioxin.
Born in 1942, Trân Tô Nga is originally from the Vietnamese province of Soc Trang (South). It was as a reporter for “Thông Tân Xa Giai Phong” (Liberation News Agency), one of the two predecessor bodies of the Vietnamese News Agency (Vietnam News Agency – VNA), that she was a victim of Agent Orange. His lawsuit against American companies producing toxic defoliants began in April 2014.
After the French court ruling, she said she wasn’t surprised because she had prepared in advance. She said she would appeal and go on her way.
During the Vietnam War, between 1961 and 1971, the US military dropped approximately 80 million liters of toxic herbicides high in dioxin, one of the most potent toxicants, to destroy the vegetation that covered the progression. Vietnamese soldiers and deprive them of their food sources.
More than 4.8 million Vietnamese have been exposed to dioxin. It has resulted in the deaths of thousands of people while tens of thousands of people are suffering from severe damage from exposure to this compound.
VNA/CVN
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