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The terrible consequences of the chemical. weapons in Vietnam
30 years after the end of hostilities in Vietnam, relations between Hanoi and Washington are still strained. The reason - the use of America's chemical weapons agents Agent Orange.
15 scary photos under the cut via Bigpicture
1. The Vietnamese believe that the powerful defoliant - officially it was used to destroy the thickets of the jungle where Viet Cong hiding - guilty of that in the areas where the toxic chemical was sprayed, people have an increased rate of birth defects. Photo: 53-year-old Nguyen Thi Thein with his 26-year-old daughter - a victim of Agent Orange spraying. Her daughter's congenital cerebrospinal hernia, and the mother is afraid of what will happen to her daughter after her death.
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2. Nguyen Trong Nhan, a representative of the Vietnamese Association of Victims of Agent Orange and a former president of the Vietnamese Red Cross, believes the use of this substance as a war crime.
3. During the war, the United States sprayed over Vietnam's territory about 80 million. Liters of toxic chemicals.
4. Agent Orange in the amount of 45 million. Liters secretly sprayed over the southern parts of the country, near the Cambodian border.
Contains 5. Agent Orange dioxins, which accumulate in the human body can lead to cancer.
6. Spraying chemicals on Vietnam ended in 1971, according to the requirements of the public, but by the time it was committed 6, 000 departures.
7. Chemicals continues to adversely affect the health of even those Vietnamese who were born in the affected lands for years after the war ended.
8. Children are born with birth defects, physical and mental.
9. Many of them are at increased risk of cancer.
10. In the late 1990s, Canadian researchers took samples of soil, water, and living in her fish and ducks, as well as human tissue samples. They found that the affected areas of soil concentration of dioxins above normal in 13 times, and in the fatty tissue of the human body - 20 times.
11. Japanese scientists who were engaged in comparing infected and uninfected areas, found that in infected areas three times higher risk of having children with a cleft palate, a so-called cleft palate, or extra fingers and toes.
12. In addition, children born in these places, is eight times more common umbilical hernia, and three times more likely congenital mental disabilities.
13. America to normalize relations with Vietnam 10 years ago. Now Vietnam embarked on the path of market reforms.
14. However, in 1984, manufacturers of chemicals have 180 million. Dollars to fund US veterans of the Vietnam War, after they filed them in court. However, they did not recognize any guilt.
15. The United States found the money to clean up Vietnam mine left over from the war, but about the consequences of toxic chemicals as if no one wants to remember.
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15 scary photos under the cut via Bigpicture
1. The Vietnamese believe that the powerful defoliant - officially it was used to destroy the thickets of the jungle where Viet Cong hiding - guilty of that in the areas where the toxic chemical was sprayed, people have an increased rate of birth defects. Photo: 53-year-old Nguyen Thi Thein with his 26-year-old daughter - a victim of Agent Orange spraying. Her daughter's congenital cerebrospinal hernia, and the mother is afraid of what will happen to her daughter after her death.
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2. Nguyen Trong Nhan, a representative of the Vietnamese Association of Victims of Agent Orange and a former president of the Vietnamese Red Cross, believes the use of this substance as a war crime.
3. During the war, the United States sprayed over Vietnam's territory about 80 million. Liters of toxic chemicals.
4. Agent Orange in the amount of 45 million. Liters secretly sprayed over the southern parts of the country, near the Cambodian border.
Contains 5. Agent Orange dioxins, which accumulate in the human body can lead to cancer.
6. Spraying chemicals on Vietnam ended in 1971, according to the requirements of the public, but by the time it was committed 6, 000 departures.
7. Chemicals continues to adversely affect the health of even those Vietnamese who were born in the affected lands for years after the war ended.
8. Children are born with birth defects, physical and mental.
9. Many of them are at increased risk of cancer.
10. In the late 1990s, Canadian researchers took samples of soil, water, and living in her fish and ducks, as well as human tissue samples. They found that the affected areas of soil concentration of dioxins above normal in 13 times, and in the fatty tissue of the human body - 20 times.
11. Japanese scientists who were engaged in comparing infected and uninfected areas, found that in infected areas three times higher risk of having children with a cleft palate, a so-called cleft palate, or extra fingers and toes.
12. In addition, children born in these places, is eight times more common umbilical hernia, and three times more likely congenital mental disabilities.
13. America to normalize relations with Vietnam 10 years ago. Now Vietnam embarked on the path of market reforms.
14. However, in 1984, manufacturers of chemicals have 180 million. Dollars to fund US veterans of the Vietnam War, after they filed them in court. However, they did not recognize any guilt.
15. The United States found the money to clean up Vietnam mine left over from the war, but about the consequences of toxic chemicals as if no one wants to remember.
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