cancel2 2022
Canceled
- Photos show orphans suffering from the effects of chemical, Agent Orange
- They can be seen battling range of physical deformities and mental disorders
- Some have missing or deformed limbs, while others have very curved spines
- Several are deaf, blind and mute - and have been bed-ridden for most of lives
- Images taken by photographer Matt Lief Anderson at orphanage in Vietnam
- U.S. forces sprayed Agent Orange over large areas of jungle during 1960s
- One million people believed to have been affected, including 150,000 children
Chemical attack: During the Vietnam War, between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. military sprayed nearly 20 million gallons of material containing chemical herbicides and defoliants mixed with jet fuel over parts of Vietnam, eastern Laos and Cambodia. Above, a U.S. plane sprays the toxic chemical over a South Vietnamese jungle