Agent Orange: A Plea to President Barack Obama

Parental sympathy and presidential obligations: a plea to Barack Obama

6/3/2011 - A prominent activist has called on President Barack Obama to redress the deadly legacies of Agent Orange, fifty years after the US first sprayed the toxic defoliant over South Vietnam.

Between 1961 and 1971, the US Army sprayed 80 million liters of Agent Orange, containing 366 kilograms of dioxin, over 30,000 square miles of southern Vietnam. Between 2.1 and 4.8 million Vietnamese were directly exposed to Agent Orange and other herbicides during the Vietnam War.

The following is a letter sent to Barack Obama by Secretary of the Britain-Vietnam Friendship Association Len Aldis, who has worked for years to spread awareness about the plight of Vietnam’s Agent Orange victims.

Dear President Obama, {continued}

Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign