A great event – Online legal advice

On January 25, 2021, after many delayed court sessions for 6 years, the Court of Évry-Courcouronnes, Essonne province, France is officially hearing the case “Agent Orange” by a Vietnamese woman. Nam, 78 years old, Ms. Tran To Nga, who holds dual French-Vietnamese citizenship, a former resistance fighter who fought under the flag of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, and was a direct victim of poison. Agent Orange dropped by the US military on the Cu Chi base area in the fall of 1966, stands as the plaintiff.

To Nga sued large chemical companies such as Dow Chemical Corporation and chemical companies that had previously supplied the US military with extremely toxic herbicides in Vietnam.

This lawsuit began in 2014, when Ms. Tran To Nga prosecuted Monsanto Chemical Company (today in the hands of German company Bayer), Dow Chemical Company and a number of giants of the agricultural industry – Americanization.

Now, the whole world knows the horror of Agent Orange with the name “herbicide” that the US military dropped on the mountains and plains of South Vietnam during the war. That poison has destroyed millions of Vietnamese people, devastated generations of Vietnamese people wherever they are, on which side they are, or just ordinary people who are “sticked” to.

That poison is a weapon against humanity, against humanity, for ten years, from 1961 to 1971, the US dropped more than 80 million liters on more than two million hectares in Indochina with the aim of destroying vegetation. lush and destroyed the shelters of the armed forces to liberate South Vietnam.

But nature and people “enjoy” this poison not only in the Viet Cong bases or the Viet Cong, it “generously” distributes to all the nature of Indochina in the spraying area, with everyone who was caught up in it as a fate, including the American soldiers on duty on the plane to drop the poison.

Now everyone knows what Agent Orange is. Because victims of that poison are found in all three regions of Vietnam, in the United States, and everywhere people are exposed to the poison.

I have had time to work closely with the Association of Victims of Agent Orange in Quang Ngai, have traveled to many areas of the province, met with many Agent Orange victims, and written many articles on this topic. So I understand.

It is true that Agent Orange spares no one, from no one, regardless of one side or the other. It releases the body, and whoever accidentally touches it is not only exposed, but also their children and grandchildren. I read an article written by a French journalist about Tran To Nga, but couldn’t hold back my tears:

“Tran To Nga regrets that she and her friends at that time mindlessly waded through the swamps full of poisonous plants. She believed that was the cause of death three years later of Viet Hai, her first daughter, died at less than three months. “She was very beautiful, a few days after she was born, her skin peeled off in patches. I want to hug him, cuddle him but dare not because he can’t breathe. The women in the camp whispered that I must have caused many injustices in my previous life, so now I have to suffer the cause and effect…” On the mother’s face, a flash of unrelenting pain appeared.

That mother stood up, single-handedly fighting even the “orange corporations” that were extremely powerful and rich. With no money, only justice, only a burning desire to demand justice for millions of people infected with Agent Orange over three generations, Ms. Tran To Nga started an unequal war against ultimate cruelty. It is extremely difficult for Vietnamese women and the great war has no end. But humanity has begun to awaken. And crime, even though it has all the means and money to cover it, must definitely be exposed to human conscience.

I have not met Tran To Nga, but I am close friends with her younger sister, Tran Tuyet Nga, the first former announcer of Liberation Radio. And through Ms. Tuyet Nga, I can imagine the fierce spirit of Mrs. Tran To Nga. Those are two sisters with strong will and unbreakable no matter who the opponent is.

I believe in the final victory of the “Orange war” that Ms. Tran To Nga is pursuing.

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