January, Wednesday27th., 2021
"...Initially, Tran blamed herself for the afflictions that have plagued her and her children. "I asked myself, what have I done to transmit this incurable disease to my children?" she said in a 2015 France 24 interview.
"Now I know that I am not at fault," she said. "We can identify the culprit of my children's illnesses… It's these dioxins."
In 2014, Tran sued 14 companies that made or sold Agent Orange, including Monsanto—now owned by the German firm Bayer—and Dow Chemical for their roles in selling the chemical to the U.S. government...."
"...Vietnam is not the only place the U.S. has used toxic weapons in
recent decades. The firing of depleted uranium rounds in Iraq during the
1991 Gulf War, the 1999 NATO air war against Yugoslavia, and during 2003-2011 Iraq War have been blamed for a rise in birth defects and other often deadly ailments. .."
"We [the US military] were even aware that the military formulation had a higher dioxin concentration than the civilian version due to the lower cost and speed of manufacture."
