Vietnam's Agent Orange Victims File Suit

Vietnam's Agent Orange Victims File Suit

(EXCERPT) Wed Feb 4, 9:34 AM ET

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HANOI, Vietnam - For the first time, Vietnamese victims of Agent
Orange have filed a suit against the U.S. companies that produced the
toxic defoliant used by American forces during the Vietnam War.

The lawsuit, filed by the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent
Orange on behalf of three people, was submitted to the U.S. Federal
Court in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Jan. 30, said the group's vice president
Nguyen Trong Nhan.

"We filed the suit to the federal court because it has handled many
cases filed by former American soldiers in Vietnam before, so they are
familiar with the matter,"...

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