Agent Orange victims Chu Quang Duc, 27 years old, is assisted by his father, Chu Quang Chien OUTSIDE...
Agent Orange victims Chu Quang Duc, 27 years old, is assisted by his father, Chu Quang Chien, who served in Vietnam's central Quang Nam - Danang area from 1971-1975 during the Vietnam war, as they visit Friendship village, a hospice for Agent Orange victims outside Hanoi August 9, 2011. Delegates from around the world gathered in Hanoi for the second international conference on Agent Orange victims from August 8 to 10, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the introduction of Agent Orange/Dioxin into Vietnam. Agent Orange is a dioxin-laced defoliant sprayed by U.S. troops in the Vietnam War to destroy crops and jungle cover shielding guerrillas. U.S. warplanes used it the first time on August 10, 1961, in Vietnam's central Kontum province, dropping about 18 million gallons of the defoliant on southern Vietnam for most of the 1960s. The defoliant released dioxins that have been blamed for health problems on people exposed with claims of dioxin poisoning by more than 3 million people in Vietnam. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM - Tags: POLITICS HEALTH)