A workshop relating to Agent Orange/dioxin sprayed by the US army in Vietnam during the war was held at the Bourgogne Council headquarter, Dijon, France, in order to call on support for the on-going struggle for justice of Vietnamese war victims.

The workshop, themed “Conflicts and environment: from ecological destruction to justice for environment’, was organised on September 26 by the Vietnam Friendship Village Committee with the support of the Bourgogne Council, the French war veterans’ association (ARAC) and the Bourgogne University.

Doctor Jean Meynard, Vice President of the Vietnamese dioxin children association, presented participants with a general view on consequences of the toxic substance sprayed by the US armed forces during the war in southern Vietnam, and photos about paints of families.

Other speaker, Claude Pinon, Vice President of the Bourgonne region, said that Vietnam still suffers harmful effects of Agent Orange on the people and environment in the aftermath of the war. Many people were born with deformity and suffered dangerous diseases.

Earlier, the ARAC opened a photo exhibition on Vietnamese Agent Orange /dioxin victims at the Bourgonne Council headquarter from September 25. (VNA)