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为了消除丛林对北越游击队的天然屏障,减少美军因遭遇游击队的埋伏而带来的重大伤亡,利于美军作战,1962—1971年美国在南越丛林喷洒了大约2000万加仑的橙剂和其他有毒除草剂。此举不仅使大约480万越南人深受其害,而且也使参与喷洒除草剂的美国退伍军人深受糖尿病、非霍奇金淋巴瘤和癌症等疾病的折磨,使他们的孩子备受出生缺陷和白血病等疾病的缠绕,他们本人也因精神沮丧、压力过大等原因,面临着高死亡率和婚姻破裂的危险。不过,相关责任人虽然在美国退伍军人索赔问题上态度明朗,同意支付赔偿,但在越南橙剂受害者赔偿事宜上却进展缓慢。
In order to eliminate the jungle’s natural barrier to the North Vietnamese guerrillas and reduce the U.S. casualties caused by the guerrilla ambush, it is good for the U.S. military to fight. In 1962-1971, the United States sprayed about 20 million gallons of orange agent and other poisonous substances in the jungles of South Vietnam herbicide. The move not only harmed about 4.8 million Vietnamese but also exposed U.S. veterans involved in the spraying of herbicides to diseases such as diabetes, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and cancer that have caused their children to suffer from birth defects And leukemia and other diseases, they themselves also because of mental depression, over-pressure and other reasons, the high mortality rate and the risk of marriage rupture. However, although the responsible persons, while having a clear-cut attitude on U.S. veterans’ claims, agreed to pay compensation, their progress has been slow in compensating victims of orange agents in Vietnam.