4,000 UXOs found buried in Cambodian pagoda
Cambodian Mine Action Centre removed 4,000 anti-aircraft shells which were found buried inside a Buddhist pagoda in Battambang province.
The Victims of Agent Orange the U.S. Has Never Acknowledged
America has never taken responsibility for spraying the herbicide over Laos during the Vietnam War. But generations endured the consequences.
Agent Orange and COVID-19: False Hopes from the Federal Government
A million Vietnam veterans returned with illnesses connected to Agent Orange. How long will it take the government to admit COVID-19 wrongs?
The People VS. Agent Orange
New film streaming today addresses the impact of Agent Orange on veterans, children of veterans and the Vietnamese people.
Legacies of war, ironically, have brought Vietnam and the US closer together
Today, there’s a shared commitment between the people of both countries to address the legacies of war, declares Chuck Searcy.
Vietnam backs woman in international trial against dioxin producers
“We support Agent Orange/dioxin victims claiming legal liability from the U.S. chemical firms that manufactured and traded Agent Orange/dioxin during the war in Vietnam.”
French court to hear landmark Agent Orange case
A French court is set to hear a landmark case against companies that supplied the US with Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.
Unexploded bomb found under downtown Hanoi
More than 1,400 households with 4,500 inhabitants were evacuated while the bomb was being removed. The unexploded bomb weighed about 340kg.
Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military’s Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange
Okinawa served as the main US launchpad for the war in southeast Asia – and the island is still contaminated today from that usage.
Legislation introduced to fund humanitarian assistance in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
“Sen. Baldwin’s bill recognizes the refugee and immigrant communities who supported the US Armed Forces during conflict in Southeast Asia.”
Agent Orange & UXO in Vietnam, VFP 2020 Nat’l Convention
Watch the full video presentations by Susan Schnall, Paul Cox, Namaya, Chuck Searcy, and Heather Bowser.
Videos of the Waging Peace in Vietnam conference, Washington DC
Panel discussions from the George Washington University conference hosted in conjunction with the traveling exhibit.
Agent Orange: Lasting Legacy of War
This panel was featured at the 2018 Veterans For Peace convention held in St. Paul, Minneapolis. The full title is" Developments from the Struggle Against Agent Orange: Lasting Legacy of War." Access this video on...
April 4 is International Mine Awareness Day
Việt Nam Note: Chuck Searcy, Project RENEW, 4 April 2020 Today, April 4, is International Mine Awareness Day, led by the United Nations and its Member States to focus the world's attention on the challenge to clean up...
Citizen Soldier’s Agent Orange Archives
Shared by Vietnam veteran Michael Uhl, with this introduction: In early 1978, Citizen Soldier, a nonprofit dedicated to advocacy on behalf of GIs and veterans, became involved in the controversial Agent Orange issue when...
Victims Left Behind in US Agent Orange Cleanup Efforts
Vietnamese victims have yet to receive compensation – and many live in desperate poverty. PHOTO: Many Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange wind up being cared for in orphanages. The kids in this photo live in an orphanage...
Ending War, American-Style
This Tomgram posted by Andrew Bacevitch on September 10, 2019, with introduction by Nick Turse, speaks to the moral bankruptcy of the United States in regards to its historic and ongoing reckless war-making. As the U.S....
Live from Spokane: Battling the Viet Nam war from the inside
Spokane Public Radio's Doug Nadvornick hosted the Tuesday, August 20, 2019 Inland Journal program featuring interviews recorded at the Veterans For Peace convention held days earlier in Spokane, Washington. The podcast...
Viet Nam: One Man’s Atonement in an Ocean of Grief
The following essay, penned by Viet Nam veteran Chuck Searcy, is a chapter in How the U.S. Creates Sh*thole" Countries (Clarity Press, 2018), a book of essays compiled and edited by Cynthia McKinney after the crass,...
Media coverage of Agent Orange widens its scope
In Public Radio International's The World broadcast of July 24, 2019, host Marco Werman interviews Susan Hammond with the War Legacies Project about the health effects of Agent Orange still experienced by people in...
700-pound bomb found in middle of river in Nghe An Province
Thanh Chuong district residents discovered the bomb, partly exposed in the water, when they went to drop their fishing nets in the Ro River. Due to a heat wave, the river, more than 20m wide, had little water.
Agent Orange barrels found in Oregon Lake
What the heck?! Agent Orange barrels found at the bottom of Wallowa Lake in Eastern Oregon? The story is ongoing... Last August, recreational divers discovered barrels labeled as containing one of two defoliants -- 2,4-D...
Fifty Years After, A Daunting Cleanup of Vietnam’s Toxic Legacy
This post originally appeared at www.e360.yale.edu. From 1962 to 1971, the American military sprayed vast areas of Vietnam with Agent Orange, leaving dioxin contamination that has severely affected the health of three...
Overcoming War Legacies: The Road to Reconciliation and Future Cooperation Between the United States and Vietnam
This post originally appeared at the aspeninstitute.org MARCH 26, 2019 • THE AGENT ORANGE IN VIETNAM PROGRAM On March 26th the governments of the United States of America and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, in...
Ambassadors visit RENEW-NPA’s all-female clearance team
Photo: RENEW-NPA all-female field clearance team and four female ambassadors, front row (from left to right Deborah Paul, Canada; Wendy Matthews, New Zealand; Grete Løchen, Norway; and Beatrice Maser Mallor,...
Project RENEW joins with Quang Tri Province authorities and other mine action organizations in meeting with U.S. Senators on explosive remnants of war
From 16 to 21 April 2019, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy, the most senior member of the U.S. Congress, led an official bipartisan US Senate delegation of nine Senators to visit Vietnam during the Senate’s April recess.
Project RENEW shares tools and skills to reduce UXO injuries to make Viet Nam safer
Project RENEW & Quang Ngai Province’s Red Cross co-organized a Mine Risk Education Inception workshop in Quang Ngai Province recently.
Meet the Team Leader of Vietnam’s First All-Female Clearance Team
At age 30, Nguyen Thi Thuy has started in a job that everyone in Vietnam believed that only men could do. This mother of one daughter now leads an all-female clearance team of 16 members for clearing cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war contaminated land in Quang Tri Province.
Vietnam honours US woman for Agent Orange relief work
Hanoi (VNA) – President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) Nguyen Phuong Nga on April 16 presented the Friendship Order, a notable distinction of the Vietnamese State, to Executive Director of the War Legacies Project (WLP) Susan Marie Hammond.
Patrick Leahy: War legacies and the expanding U.S.-Vietnam partnership
When I became a senator for Vermont in 1975, one of the first votes I cast was for a law to stop funding the war in Vietnam. That law passed by one vote…. Words cannot adequately describe the magnitude of the catastrophe of that war for the people of both countries.
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