Vietnamese lose in court on defoliant From: International Herald Tribune | Date: March 11, 2005| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

William Glaberson
International Herald Tribune
03-11-2005
A federal judge dismissed Thursday a damage suit filed on behalf of millions of Vietnamese that charged American chemical companies with committing war crimes by supplying the military with the defoliant Agent Orange.The civil suit, filed last year, sought what could have been billions of dollars in damages and the environmental cleanup of Vietnam. The suit drew international attention for its charges about Agent Orange, which was widely used by the U.S. military to clear the jungle until 1971.The suit said that the defoliant, which ...

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