Week8-Xinyu Yang-ASA150E

The reading of 'Scorched earth' talk about the Scorched-earth Policy's impact on Vietnam.  Scorched-earth Policy as a Military strategy could bring huge losses and damage to people. Especially the use of orange agents for chemical weapons. Among them, TCDD-dioxin can continue to bring negative effects on Vietnamese people for decades after the war. At the time, even the American soldiers who used the Orange Agent not adequately protected and informed. I noticed that the author mentioned that the US military and the Department of Agriculture were studying the feasibility of extensive forest and jungle destruction in Southeast Asia. If this is undoubtedly the biggest malice to the Southeast Asian environment.
And in addition to using chemical weapons, the military dropped 3 million soo-7oo bombs on Vietnam.  This has caused a large number of farmers and children to be harmed, and even the remnants of bombs can cause plant death. Military and government indifference can be seen through clashes between Vietnam veterans and orange agent makers, and class actions against Vietnamese victims.

My question is should companies profiting from the Vietnam War bear social responsibility? Is it possible to establish a legal supervision department to help people who still damaged by the use of chemical weapons?


“Ho Chi Minh. Professor Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong, at Tu Du Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital is pictured with a group of handicapped children, most of them victims of Agent Orange.”

resources:https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/#/media/File:A_vietnamese_Professor_is_pictured_with_a_group_of_handicapped_children.jpg