While traveling trough Vietnam, I visited an orphanage in Hoi An and was overwhelmed by the number of children with disabilities living there.
Forty years after the Vietnam war came to an end, children continue to be born with deformities due to the effects of Agent Orange, a defoliant that contained a huge concentration of dioxin.
Forty years after the Vietnam war came to an end, children continue to be born with deformities due to the effects of Agent Orange, a defoliant that contained a huge concentration of dioxin.
Agent Orange was used by the Americans to make it easier to find and attack their Vietnamese enemy in the jungle, but the 'collateral' damage was colossal: 400 000 died, 500 000 were born with disabilities, and there is an immense increase in cancer patients,diabetes,...
These pictures show the effect of the poison today, in 2016, in a randomly picked orphanage in the country.
Let us not forget.