In the article "The legacy of agent orange: empirical evidence from central Vietnam" by Michael G. Palmer, the author states that the US military used the chemical weapon Agent orange to cause a large number of US and Vietnamese soldiers deaths in the Vietnam War. First, the US military used Agent Orange to destroy the grass that the Vietnamese army used to hide, and the second was to destroy Vietnam's crops. To my surprise, the power of Agent Orange is not less than that of an atomic bomb. Those polluted land cannot self-purify, and the nearby residents are significantly affected. Some of the affected residents had Cancer, and some children were born with defects. Most of them suffered from miscarriages and various skin disease. What surprised me is that these infected people did not receive sufficient economic and medical assistance. Most people are sick and die after they get sick. Most of these affected people are single because they cannot learn or work. This reason also led to a decline in the population of some rural areas. According to the survey, most AO families indicated that they did not receive adequate assistance. The author believes that the Vietnamese Red Cross will need to cooperate with foreign NGOs to obtain donations. This picture makes me sad because many children are actually infected with AO, and most of the children are born without vision.
- The legacy of agent orange: Empirical evidence from central Vietnam. (2004, August 19). Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S027795360400317X
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