French court to hold trial on AO lawsuit on October 12

President of the Vietnam Association of Victims of AO/dioxin (VAVA) Nguyen Van Rinh has sent a letter expressing support for Vietnamese-French Tran Thi To Nga who had filed a lawsuit against 26 US chemical firms for producing chemical toxins sprayed by the US army in the war in Vietnam, causing serious consequences for the community, her children and herself.
French court to hold trial on AO lawsuit on October 12 ảnh 1Vietnamese-French Tran Thi To Nga in a dialogue on the impacts of Agent Orange in Paris (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – President of theVietnam Association of Victims of AO/dioxin (VAVA) Nguyen Van Rinh has sent aletter expressing support for Vietnamese-French Tran Thi To Nga who had filed alawsuit against 26 US chemical firms for producing chemical toxins sprayed bythe US army in the war in Vietnam, causing serious consequences for thecommunity, her children and herself.
The Crown Court of Evry city in the suburb ofParis, where Nga filed the lawsuit in May 2014, has decided to open trial onthe case on October 12.

In the letter, Rinh affirmed that the VAVA,with its mission to support and protect the legitimate rights and interests ofAO/dioxin victims, will always accompany Nga. So far, the association hascollected 416,200 signatures of its members and people with good will in supportof the lawsuit.

He expressed his hope that the French courtwill uphold justice for Nga and her family.

In May 2014, Nga, born in 1942, filed thelawsuit. On April 16, 2015, the Evry court held the first hearing on the case,but since then, lawyers of the sued chemical companies tried every way toprolong the procedures.

Tran To Nga graduatedfrom a Hanoi university in 1966 and became a war correspondent of theLiberation News Agency, now the Vietnam News Agency. She worked in some of themost heavily AO/Dioxin affected areas in southern Vietnam such as Cu Chi, BenCat and along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, ultimately experiencing contaminationeffects herself.
Among her three children, the first child died of heartdefects and the second suffers from a blood disease.
In 2009, Nga, who contracted a number of acute diseases,appeared as a witness at the Court of Public Opinion in Paris, France againstthe US chemical companies.
From 1961-1971, US troops sprayed more than 80 million litresof herbicides—44 million litres of which were AO, containing nearly 370kilograms of dioxin—over southern Vietnam.
As a result, around 4.8 million Vietnamese were exposed tothe toxic chemical. Many of the victims have died, while millions of theirdescendants are living with deformities and diseases as a direct result of thechemical’s effects.-VNA
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