Agent Orange: Fifty years on, a documentary by Bill Bainbridge

Critics say it’s too little too late for the innocent victims still suffering from the legacy of the war.

Stillborn babies in Vietnam from Agent Orange. Courtesy: Agent Orange Action Group

(DA NANG, Vietnam) - It’s 50 years since US forces first used the chemical defoliant known as agent orange in Vietnam.

Designed to destroy forest cover being used by the communist forces the dioxin has also had a long and poisonous legacy, causing birth defects in children born long after the war ended.

It took until June of this year for the United States to cut the first ribbon on a project to clean up some of the country’s worst contaminated sites. Critics say it’s too little too late for the innocent victims still suffering from the legacy of the war.

Bill Bainbridge traveled to Vietnam to find out more.

Visit: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-29/agent-orange/3751696?section=world

Source: Agent Orange Action Group