I was a student in letters
in hypokhagne and our
history teacher asked us to
the end of the year to write an article
on the subject of our choice
after reflection I decided to
to be interested in the history of vietnam
my grandfather’s country and more
especially to chemical warfare
so I started doing some
research
then I learned at that moment that
more than 80 million liters of
defoliants had been dumped on
the southern part of vietnam
this operation called wen operation
qiang by the US military had
for the purpose of destroying the cover
plant that protected the viet
congs I also learned so a derivative
of this defoliant the dioxin had
contaminated soil groundwater
phreatic fauna flora and
come to lighten the food chain
the locals I also thought that this
war was behind as dreadful
Was it that they were visible
through history and the look that
initially brought him the experts
thought that the dioxin would disappear
with the time it would lose even the
half of its harmful properties in
less than seven years old today
millions of Vietnamese suffer
still consequences of this
massive spreading
after 50 years there are still 28 places
in Vietnam where the dioxin level is
almost equal to the one saved
after spraying I was also
particularly struck when learning
so that dioxin
this teratogenic derivative of grac terra
monstrous cause malformations of
more and more scary in the new
born the most affected children
belong to my generation and to
the following absence of late members
mental blindness deafness affections
cutaneous digestive nerve cancer
lymphoma diabetes
the mauves are innumerable and
behind all this
American chemical firms
companies that today do not
still do not recognize their share of
responsibility in the conflict
I was angry
I was ashamed of my ignorance and I do not
did not understand why in the face of such
injustice the media react and if
little but as mitterrand said in
his two- way memories feeling
of injustice is not enough to defeat
justice at this time I was publishing
also on the internet but reflection
on ecology and my small actions
everyday life through a blog named
iam cloth
it was my way of expressing my
belief or potential of the individual and
it’s partly because of this belief
that I left a year later at the
meeting the victims of Agent Orange
with the help of two associations
I had the chance to meet three
extraordinary people three
people with different disabilities
but that comes from the same cause the
dioxin and I’d like to make you
share their story
so here duke duke at 33
today he is professor professor
of computer science and mathematics in
a province of hano I took this
photo with his daddy duke is recognized by
the state as being victims of the agent
orange that is, he has received
grants
there we do not see very well but god
which has a size much smaller than the
average
he has atrophied limbs and he does
can not move then his father
since his son’s age to be
educated he carried on a bike on a
kilometer
since in primary school first and
then arrived at college and then at high school
establishments were more
away from the blow his father bought
a motorcycle to take him away and finally duke
returned to normal school
superior to study
mathematics
this time universities were
hanoi
suddenly his father moved in with him
and he took care of him every day
in fact duke he is passionate about
abstraction and not just to
through mathematics when I
discussed with him he told me he
was interested in philosophy at
Buddhism he is even vegetarian
so in fact and get out of
constraints of his body through his knowledge
by his taste for abstraction
now I present you kien
stand at 33 also he is he
lives in a province of hano
he is also recognized by the state
as being victims of the orange agent
channel has an external tumor on the part
right of the face and suffers from closing to
Guinea
which is a very severe form
of acne life of kien was not
easy since very small it is done
operate each year and without them
state grants his family
could never have paid the transactions
his schooling was not
simple at school the kids were running away
and eventually ends up running away
school but thanks to the support of its
parents and his family he nevertheless
pursued the studies of electrician
because in fact what she holds is
retrieve objects objects
electronic especially all objects
we think over year cutting dead well
he recovers them he is recovered he
is repaired and I’m trying to sentences that
came to mind thinking about objects
to think oneself is like that
what was built yen is today
his dream is to open his own
repair shop
I present you my nantes ndong
tenzing at age 37 he was living hanoi and
he too is recognized by the state
as being victims of the orange agent
tenzing is blind he is blind but
especially it’s one of the biggest
composers of his generation
they play a traditional instrument
Vietnamese lan bao which is composed
a rope hanging on a crate of
resonance and when I asked
all why he loved
especially this instrument he has me
said that with one rope he could
create notes to infinity only with a
only rope he could transmit from the
joy and emotion
tengzhong is not blind from birth
in fact his blindness has developed
at the same time
where he learned to play lan ko and
her entourage was telling her his father to
the time he could never
learn to read music
yet you can not go to the academy
of music at the age of seven and he
comes out first and since it makes
concerts in europe all over the world
firstly to make discover
the instrument that passionate him and the
Vietnamese traditional music but
also to inform and raise awareness
international community around
crimes of war
each of them found through his
art to find through his passion a
metaphor of its existence a means of
overcome all difficulties
inherent in his life
but unfortunately this is not the case
of the majority of families
Vietnamese victims I have
met families that had neither
the necessary means and
resources to send a simple
mail it to get to have some
aids to vietnam
the impossible administration there is
a lot of steps today
a 75-year-old Vietnamese franco
important lawsuit to the main firms
American chemicals and I would like
conclude in these words so here is this
that she tells me on November 7, 2016 during
an interview that I devote to him for
postpone the trial that I’m conducting against
Monsanto is not a classic trial
I act for the crimes of war
do not be forgotten so that
the whole community
International is mobilizing against
steed echoes and genocides
it is for these firms to leave the
consciousness awoke to assume the
badly that we caused and gather
to fix it thank you
no
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