A photo of Tran To Nga. (Source: VNA) Paris (VNA) – Tran To Nga, a Vietnamese AgentOrange (AO)/dioxinvictim living in France, introduced her autobiography on the occasion of the VietnamDay event held in Valenton city, Val de Marne province of France, on March 25.
Thebook, entitled “Ma terre empoisonee” (My poisoned land) tells the story of Nga,who lived and worked in some areas heavily sprayed with dioxin-contained AO in southernVietnam from 1966 to 1970 and consequently suffering from the toxic chemical.
Ngaalso talked about projects that she has been working on to support VietnameseAO victims.
InMay 2014, Nga filed a lawsuit against 26 US chemical firms for producingchemical toxins sprayed by the US army in the war in Vietnam.
FrancoiseLabat, Vice Mayor of Valenton city, said that the city will organise moreevents on the issues to raise people’s awareness in the fight for justice forVietnamese AO victims.
From1961 to 1971, US troops sprayed more than 80 million litres of herbicides — 44million litres of which were AO, containing nearly 370kg of dioxin — onsouthern Vietnam.
Asa result, about 4.8 million Vietnamese were exposed to the toxic chemical. Manyof the victims have died, while millions of their descendants are living withdeformities and diseases as a direct result of the AO/dioxin effects.-VNA
