The case of Agent Orange.(term given to a herbicide and defoliant used during the Vietnam war by the U.S. military) From: Contemporary Southeast Asia | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: Palmer, Michael G. | COPYRIGHT 2007 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Just as America and its allies have become embroiled in what some have called another Vietnam, questions to do with the injustice of that earlier conflict have begun to resurface in international forums. In January of 2004, some 29 years since the official end of the Vietnam War the first action on behalf of Vietnamese victims of the principal US military herbicide, Agent Orange, was filed in a New York district court. In March the following year all claims were dismissed. This article seek...

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