Swiss Party of Labour voices solidarity with Vietnamese AO victims
The Swiss Party of Labour has expressed its solidarity with Vietnamese-French woman Tran To Nga and all Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims of Vietnam after a French court rejected Nga’s lawsuit seeking justice for the victims.
Members of the Swiss Party of Labour show their solidarity with Tran To Nga and AO/dioxin victims (Photo: VNA)
Geneva (VNA) – TheSwiss Party of Labour has expressed its solidarity with Vietnamese-French woman Tran To Nga and all Agent Orange (AO)/dioxinvictims of Vietnam after a French court rejected Nga’s lawsuit seeking justice forthe victims.
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./.
The France-based Bourdon & Associates law firm affirmed its support for Vietnamese-French Tran To Nga in her lawsuit against multinational chemical companies after the Crown Court of Evry City ruled that it did not have jurisdiction to hear her case on May 10.
The German Communist Party (DKP) on May 10 issued a statement expressing its support for the lawsuit lodged by Vietnamese French Tran To Nga and Vietnamese Agent Orange/dioxin victims against 14 multinational chemical groups.
Many newspapers of German have run stories highlighting the lawsuit lodged by Vietnamese French Tran To Nga against 14 multinational chemical companies that produced the toxic chemicals sprayed by the US army in Vietnam during the war, affirming that the plaintiff and her supporters are not deterred by the ruling of a French court that the case fell outside its jurisdiction.
The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange (AO) (VAVA) has affirmed it will provide spiritual and material support to Tran To Nga to continue her lawsuit against US firms that manufactured the toxic AO defoliant used by US forces during the war in Vietnam.
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Members of the Swiss Party of Labour show their solidarity with Tran To Nga and AO/dioxin victims (Photo: VNA) 
