Active Voice, a US communications organization, has launched a new website to raise awareness of the long-term effects of Agent Orange (AO) in Vietnam.
MakeAgentOrangeHistory.org is also intended to highlight solutions to the problem and connect individuals, foundations and non-governmental organizations with opportunities to get involved.
AO was an herbicide used by the US military to kill shrubs and plants during the war in Vietnam.
According to the Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA), US troops sprayed around 80 million liters of defoliants containing 400 kg of the poisonous AO/dioxin, onto the southern battlefields over a ten year period, from 1961 to 1971. As a result, around 4.8 million people in Vietnam were exposed to the lethal substance of who 3 million have fallen victim to AO/dioxin. (vietnamplus.vn Nov 11)
