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A member of the Vietnamese military walks past a basin, which the U.S. army used to store the defoliant Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, at Danang airbase
26 Jun 2009
Source: Reuters
 
Vu Duc Trung, a member of the Vietnamese military, walks past a basin, which the U.S. army used to store the defoliant Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, at Danang airbase June 25, 2009. U.S. warplanes dropped about 18 million gallons of the defoliant on southern Vietnam for most of the 1960s. The defoliant released dioxins that have been blamed for health problems in people exposed. The United States has maintained there is no scientifically proven link between the wartime spraying and the claims of dioxin poisoning by more than 3 million people in Vietnam. Picture taken June 25, 2009. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM CONFLICT HEALTH SOCIETY MILITARY)
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Agent Orange victims are seen at the Friendship Village, a hospice for victims, in Hanoi August 10, 2009. Vietnam launched an "Orange Day" campaign on Monday to raise funds for people ...




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