Dismissal of Agent Orange chemical case angers victims

THE dismissal of a case in the United States which accused chemical companies of war crimes by supplying the US Army with Agent Orange in the Vietnam War, triggered angry protests from Vietnamese victims yesterday.

“His verdict is completely unreasonable and unjust,” Nguyen Trong Nhan, vice president of Vietnam’s Association of Victims of Agent Orange said, a day after US District Court Judge Jack Weinstein dismissed the case.

“We will pursue the suit until justice is done,” Nhan said.