Members of the Swiss Party of Labour show their solidarity with Tran To Nga and AO/dioxin victims (Photo: VNA)In astatement released on May 11, the partyemphasised that it is unacceptable that after many decades, none of thoseaccountable for the war that destroyed the environment, the ecology, and peoplein Vietnam have been punished.
Nga’s lawsuit is a greatopportunity to regain justice for the victims and help ease part of their warpain, the Swiss party noted, affirming its consistent support for her in thisstruggle.
As one ofthe four million AO/dioxin victims, the 79-year-old woman sued 14 multinationalchemical companies, including herbicide manufacturer Monsanto (now under theBayer Group of Germany), for supplying or selling the herbicide and defoliantchemical - AO/dioxin for the US army to use in the war in Vietnam.
However, theCrown Court of Evry city in France on May 10 ruled that it did not have thejurisdiction to hear her case.
Inresponse, Nga said she will appeal, and that she will fight until the bitterend and this is the last struggle of her life.
Ngagraduated from a Hanoi university in 1966 and became a war correspondent of theLiberation News Agency. She worked in some of the most heavily AO/dioxin affected areas insouthern Vietnam, such as Cu Chi, Ben Cat, and along the Ho Chi Minh Trail,ultimately experiencing contamination herself.
Of her three children, the first died of heartdefects and the second suffers from a blood disease. She has also contracted anumber of acute diseases.
She is struggling for justice for not onlyherself and her children but also the four million Vietnamese people sufferingfrom AO/dioxin./.
VNA
