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Picture
credit: Merle Ratner.
The Korean Disabled
Veteran's Association for Agent Orange
Press
release
August 24, 2006
For Information Contact: David Cline (201) 320-9755
Charles Choy (718) 813-2285
South
Korean Veterans of the Vietnam War Affected by Agent Orange
Rally for Justice Today at the United Nations!Today, August 24,
2006, from 2:00 to 5:00 pm at the Isaiah Wall, 43rd Street and
1st Avenue (United Nations Plaza) a 32 person delegation of South
Korean war veterans who are victims of Agent Orange will meet
with American Vietnam veterans.
Organized by the Korean Disabled Veteran's Association for Agent
Orange, their vigil, (which will continue on Friday, from 9:00
to 4:00 PM) is intended to bring public attention to the suffering
of troops who fought alongside U.S. soldiers.
The South Korean veterans, several of whom are wheelchair bound,
suffer from illness and disability due to their exposure to Dioxin
when they fought under the U.S. command during the Vietnam War.
They are seeking compensation for their injuries from the U.S.
government and chemical companies. They are also seeking action
from the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
South Korean veterans have sued the U.S. manufacturers of Agent
Orange and have won a judgment against the companies in Korean
courts, but the companies are now appealing.
More than 30 years after the end of the U.S. war, American veterans
are supporting compensation for their Korean counterparts. U.S.
veterans received partial compensation for their injuries from
the chemical companies and the U.S. government but Korean and
Vietnamese veterans received not one penny from the U.S. government
which sprayed them with Agent Orange.
The delegation of South Korean Agent Orange affected veterans
will be taking their vigil and their photo display of showing
the affects of Agent Orange, to the White House in Washington
D.C. next week.
Support Korean Agent
Orange Victims!
- More than 30 years
after the end of the War in Vietnam, the war continues.
- 170,000 Korean veterans
who fought under U.S. command suffer the effects of Agent Orange
- A South Korean court
has ordered the U.S. chemical manufacturers to compensate the
victims for their injuries, but the companies are appealing
the decision.
- The U.S. government
has refused to pay even a dime to alleviate the suffering of
their former South Korean allies
- 32 Agent Orange
affected Vietnam veterans from South Korea are here seeking
justice.
Come Join
Korean veterans in demanding:
- Justice
and compensation for Korea’s Agent Orange veterans from the
U.S. government and chemical manufacturers!
- Action
from the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to act on
behalf of these victims!
Thursday, August
24, 2006 2:00 – 5:00 PM
at the Isaiah Wall, 43rd Street and 1st
Avenue
(United Nations Plaza)
Sponsored by the Korean Disabled Veteran’s Association
for Agent Orange
Cựu binh Hàn Quốc bị nhiễm chất độc da cam/dioxin
đòi bồi thường
16:55:58, 25/08/2006
http://www.thanhnien.com.vn/Thegioi/2006/8/25/160098.tno
Ngày 24/8, hơn 30 cựu chiến binh Hàn Quốc từng tham
chiến ở Việt Nam và bị nhiễm chất độc da cam/dioxin do quân đội
Mỹ rải xuống miền Nam Việt Nam trong thời gian chiến tranh, đã
cùng với các cựu binh Mỹ tuần hành trước cửa trụ sở Liên Hiệp
Quốc ở New York để đòi công lý.
Những cựu chiến binh Hàn Quốc, nhiều người trong
số họ ngồi trên xe lăn, bị các tổn thương nặng, ốm yếu và tàn
phế do phải tiếp xúc với chất độc da cam/dioxin trong thời gian
tham chiến dưới sự chỉ huy của Mỹ ở Việt Nam. Họ đòi các công
ty hóa chất Mỹ phải bồi thường cho những tổn hại mà họ và thế
hệ con cháu họ đã và đang tiếp tục phải hứng chịu. Họ đã kiện
các công ty sản xuất hóa chất Mỹ lên Tòa án Hàn Quốc và đã được
phán quyết thắng trong vụ kiện này.
Những cựu chiến binh Hàn Quốc này cũng đang tìm
kiếm sự ủng hộ của Hội đồng nhân quyền Liên Hiệp Quốc đối với
đòi hỏi của họ. Dự kiến vào tuần tới, đoàn nạn nhân chất độc da
cam/dioxin Hàn Quốc sẽ tới Washington, mang theo nhiều bức ảnh
minh họa ảnh hưởng của chất độc này đối với con người để chuyển
lên Nhà Trắng.
Theo TTXVN
 http://www.asiansinamerica.org/home.html
AUGUST
2006:
South
Korean Veterans of the Vietnam War Affected by Agent Orange.
A Rally
for Justice at the United Nations was held on
August 24, 2006. A 32 person delegation of South Korean war veterans
who are victims of Agent Orange was joined by American Vietnam
veterans.
Organized by the Korean Disabled Veteran's Association
for Agent Orange, their vigil, was intended to bring public attention
to the suffering of troops who fought alongside U.S. soldiers.
The South Korean veterans, several of whom are wheelchair
bound, suffer from illness and disability due to their exposure
to Dioxin when they fought under the U.S. command during the Vietnam
War. They are seeking compensation for their injuries from the
U.S. government and chemical companies. They are also seeking
action from the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
South Korean veterans have sued the U.S. manufacturers
of Agent Orange and have won a judgment against the companies
in Korean courts, but the companies are now appealing.
More than 30 years after the end of the U.S. war,
American veterans are supporting compensation for their Korean
counterparts. U.S. veterans received partial compensation for
their injuries from the chemical companies and the U.S. government
but Korean and Vietnamese veterans received not one penny from
the U.S. government which sprayed them with Agent Orange.
The delegation of South Korean Agent Orange affected
veterans will be taking their vigil and their photo display of
showing the affects of Agent Orange, to the White House in Washington
D.C.
For more information, please visit http://www.vn-agentorange.org/.
 Agence
France Presse –- English
August 31, 2006 Thursday 6:15 PM GMT
South Korean vets demand
Agent Orange compensation in White House protest
LENGTH: 239 words
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Aug 31 2006
BODY:
South Korean veterans of the Vietnam War held a
vigil in front of the White House Thursday to demand compensation
for their exposure to the toxic Agent Orange defoliant used by
the US military during the conflict.
Nearly three-dozen veterans who fought alongside
US forces in Vietnam held signs with pictures of men with skin
infections and the words "Becoming
rotten by spread of Agent-Orange."
"The American government has done wrong,"
said Charles Choy, a spokesman for the Korean Disabled Veteran's
Association for Agent-Orange.
Choy said the US government or the companies that
manufactured the chemical should compensate the veterans or provide
medical treatment.
Tens of thousands of South Korean soldiers were
sickened by Agent Orange in the war, he said.
In January, a South Korean court ordered the US
firms Dow Chemical and Monsanto to compensate thousands of veterans
and their families.
US forces widely sprayed Agent Orange, which contained
the lethal chemical dioxin, in southern Vietnam during the conflict
to deprive enemy guerrillas of forest cover and destroy food crops.
Vietnam says millions of people have suffered a
range of illnesses and birth defects as a result, a claim also
made by many war veterans from the United States, Australia, New
Zealand, Canada and South Korea.
South Korea sent some 300,000 troops to fight alongside
the United States and southern Vietnamese forces during the war,
which ended in 1975.
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