Vietnam: Agent Orange Lives on in Vietnam, Poisoning Children and Ruining Lives

Sep 2, 2014 | The Advocacy Project
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While Le Ba Thuan was recruiting soldiers for the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War, he would watch American planes spraying herbicide and try to avoid the contaminated areas. He never quite succeeded and for the past fifty years he has suffered from heart disease, high blood pressure, constant headaches, and skin rashes.

But compared to his family Thuan is lucky. His first daughter died of nose cancer. Another child died with severe birth defects. A third miscarried. Thuan's fourth child, Hang, is epileptic, blind and paralyzed from the neck down. The only members of the family to escape the catastrophe are Thuan's two sons and wife.